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JCON Europe 2025 was great! Period! It is such a flawlessly organized conference with an ever present community spirit. This year was maybe even more special than usual because of the 30 Years of Java celebrations. Eclipse Foundation had a booth where we featured the Jakarta EE, Adoptium, and Eclipse...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This Monday I hosted Javaforum Malmö where we got an interesting presentation by Artur Skowroński about AI in the context of the JVM as he was passing by Malmö on his way to Devoxx UK. If you are a...

The second event of Javaforum Malmø took place this Monday. We were fortunate enough to have Artur Skowroński visit us and talk about JVM in the Age of AI. Those present experienced a fast-paced presentation that gave a complete overview of all the different projects and initiatives going on to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The service outage is more than just your regular neighborhood outage. It seems to be a massive breakdown of a storage cluster that is a central piece on which all the Jenkins CI instances depend. The Jakarta EE TCK...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was in Bangalore speaking at GIDS. Read all about it in my write-up from the event. I now have a couple of weeks at home before my conferences in May, which will be JCON Europe, followed...

This was my sixth time speaking at GIDS! My first time was in 2016, so I have only missed out on a few editions during the last 10 years. It is a great conference, with a very engaged audience, so I am happy to be a regular speaker there. The...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It has been quiet around Jakarta MVC for a while, so I am happy to announce that Jakarta MVC 3.0 is under release review as we speak. This release is aligned with Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile and comes...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are getting closer and closer to finalizing the refactoring of the Jakarta EE Platform TCK. The goal right now is to have the Jakarta EE 11 Platform ready for release review by the end of May 2025. Stay...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile is released! It’s a little later than planned, but we’re finally there, and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile joins Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile among the released specifications. It has been a tremendous effort...

Some key highlights from the Eclipse SDV Community Days Q1 in Rotterdam.