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Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It has been a busy week for me. First, I went to Las Vegas for IBM TechXchange 2023. Less than two hours after my talk ended, my flight took off for New York and the JCP Executive Committee Face-to-Face...

The Java Community Process (JCP) was founded in New York 25 years ago, so it only made sense to kick off the 25-year anniversary celebrations when the JCP Executive Committee (JCP EC) met in New York. The JCP EC had its second face-to-face meeting of 2023 in New York this...

Today, the Eclipse Foundation released the results of our security audit for Eclipse JKube, a collection of tools for building Java applications that can be deployed to a cloud environment. Findings from the audit have been addressed in the 1.13 release leading to a new feature. This audit included a...

The inaugural IBM TechXchange occurred at MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 11 to September 14 with a respectable attendee count of somewhere around 3000. I was invited to speak there and did a talk with Emily as a co-speaker. It would be an exaggeration to claim that the...

Exciting things are happening in the Java world, and Eclipse Temurin is leading the way. The Adoptium Working Group has recently launched a new web page to recognize Eclipse Temurin adopters and users. If you’re a Temurin user, this is your chance to be part of something meaningful that supports...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week’s trip to Amsterdam and the Picnic Java Meetup was a success. Next up is IBM TechXchange in Las Vegas. While I am on the other side of the Atlantic, I am going to have a pretty busy...

I initiated my Fall 2023 Conference season with a short trip to Amsterdam to speak at Picnic Java Meetup. There were two talks on related topics. I did a talk on how to migrate from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3, focusing on the part Jakarta EE plays in...

Cloud Developer Survey results, Embedded SIG evolution, Contributor awards to STMicroelectronics and Mark Sujew, Theia, JKube, and JBOSS releases.

This article was first published in the August 2023 Eclipse Foundation Newsletter. The work on defining the next major update of Jakarta EE has been going on for a while. Back in January 2023, the Jakarta EE Working Group Steering Committee defined the high-level guidelines for Jakarta EE 11. One...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back! From vacation, that is. The upcoming weeks will be pretty busy with travels, starting softly on Wednesday with a short trip to Amsterdam for the Picnic Java Meetup. After that, I will be going overseas for IBM...