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Welcome to the twelfth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I should have been speaking at JavaLand, one of my favorite conferences. But as you are aware of, this conference was added to the long list of cancelled events this spring. Being a Developer Advocate normally involves a lot...

Welcome to the eleventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It’s been a special week. But at least, in our industry, we are pretty well equipped and used to remote working. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope that the measures taken will get the situation under control and we can...

Welcome to the latest Jakarta EE update. We have a number of initiatives underway and many great opportunities to get involved with Jakarta EE, so I’ll get right to it. The Adopt-A-Spec Program for Java User Groups Is Now Live We encourage all Java User Groups (JUGs) to adopt a...

The results of our first IoT Commercial Adoption survey tell a clear story about what organizations are doing with IoT right now and their plans for production deployments. The goal of the survey was to go beyond the IoT Developer Survey we’ve conducted for the last six years to gain...

Welcome to the tenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Join me in celebrating the 10th issueversity of this series! I can’t believe we’re already at 10. In the MicroProfile Hangout this week, the discussion around technical alignment with related technologies and standardization efforts (such as Jakarta EE) continued. Two approaches...

Welcome to the ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I had the pleasure of speaking at ConFoo in Montreal. It was my second time speaking at this conference. This was the 18th edition and the number of attendees has increased every year. 839 registered attendees this year! My...

Welcome to the eigth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was at Devnexus in Atlanta. This awesome conference organized by the Atlanta Java User Group has established itself as the place to be if you are a Java developer. This year with 2400 attendees and an amazing line-up...

On Friday, February 7 2020, Eclipse.org suffered a severe service disruption to many of its web properties when our primary authentication server and file server suffered a hardware failure. For 90 minutes, our main website, www.eclipse.org, was mostly available, as was our Bugzilla bug tracking tool, but logging in was...

This post is brought to you today by the Eclipse EGit Project. Eclipse EGit is the Eclipse open source project that provides Git integration for the Eclipse Platform. On Eclipse open source project pages (which we often refer to as the Project Management Interface or “PMI”), the “ Who’s Involved”...

Welcome to the seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most common questions I get when talking about Jakarta EE is: “How can I help?”. Well, here is a suggestion: The post “ Help wanted: improved signature test tool” by Bill Shannon on the Jakarta EE Community mailing...