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The second, and last, stop on this mini-Tour of Czech JUGs was Brno and BrnoJUG. I presented Jakarta EE Meets AI here as well. As usual, this presentation triggers questions, comments, and discussions that continued over food and drinks afterwards. The event was located at the Faculty of Informatics at...

Yesterday I was in Prague and spoke at the Prague Java User Group (CZJUG Prague). It was hosted at the university. Actually the university where Apache NetBeans was initially created. Unfortunately, I forgot that and ran my demos in IDEA and not in NetBeans (Shame on me, but since Jetbrains...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was on a small Italian JUG Tour, visiting the Java User Groups in Milan and Turin. You can read about the events in my blog posts about JUG Milano and JUG Torino. Next week, I will...

After speaking at JUG Milano on Monday in Milan, the trip continued to Turin and JUG Torino on Tuesday. Rosaria joined me at this event as well, and both of us updated our slides and tweaked the presentations. Rosaria presented SKILLAB, which analyses the skills associated with Open Source. You...

On Monday, I visited JUG Milano together with my colleague Rosaria Rossini. She did a short talk about soft and hard skills needed for Open Source titled Java & Skills: a research activities in research@eclipse. After that, I did a talk titled Jakarta EE Meets AI where I show different...

We’re thrilled to share an exciting milestone with the community: Eclipse Temurin has reached over 500 million cumulative downloads as of October 31, 2024! This achievement reflects the growing trust and reliance of the Java community on Temurin as a secure, high-performance, TCK Certified, and high-quality OpenJDK runtime. Reaching this...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am in the middle of a trip across Europe that started at DevCon in in Bucharest, Rumania and continued to SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. Right now, I am on my way to Milan and Turin to talk at...

This was the 24th edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bolzano. I is a free event that attracts visitors mostly from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. This year, there were about 1000 registered attendees. All the sessions at the conference are 15-minute long lighting talks happening...

I have been to Bucharest several times speaking at various conferences. Devcon was a new experience, even if it is organized by the same team as some of the other ones I have spoken at. It is a two day conference with multiple tracks, or stages, that vary a little...

The election for the JCP Executive Committee started today! All JCP Members eligible to vote have received an e-mail with voting instructions. Don’t wait – cast your vote today! The ballot will close at 11:59 PM PST on November 18 We would appreciate if you cast your vote for Eclipse...