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We are excited to announce that Jakarta EE 10 has won a 2023 DEVIES Award in the Programming Languages & Frameworks category. The 11th annual DEVIES Awards are the definitive annual awards for the software industry recognizing outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology across 31 categories. “Developer tools...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are almost a month into 2023 and the Jakarta EE Platform Project is ramping up the release planning for Jakarta EE 11. A survey will shortly go out to all the individual component specification projects to gather...

This was the third edition of jChampionsConf. As the name implies, all speakers of this conference are Java Champions. The 100% virtual four-day conference (January 19, 20, 23, and 24) is available on the JChampions Conference YouTube channel. Don’t worry if you missed a talk when it was LIVE. You...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was speaking at THAT Conference in Round Rock, Texas. It was my first travel in 2023, and it felt really good to be on the road again. I have a feeling that 2023 will be...

It was my first time attending and speaking at THAT Conference. It is a three-day conference at the Kalahari Resorts and Convention Center in Round Rock, Texas. The original conference in Wisconsin has been going on for years, and this was the second time it was organized in Texas. It...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and fifty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned in Hashtag Jakarta EE #157, the Steering Committee of the Jakarta EE Working Group has been working on defining high-level guidelines for Jakarta EE 11. The effort, led by Steve Millidge, concluded with the following...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and fifty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! 2023 is a week old, and my first conference of the year is coming up! I am going to Texas to speak at THAT Conference in Round Rock, Texas. It is my first time attending this conference, so...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and fifty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE, the first of many in 2023! Happy New Year! Let’s peek into the crystal bowl and check out what we can expect from 2023. The Conference Year 2022 was amazing! European conferences were more or less back at...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and fifty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I realize that it is Christmas Day and hopefully most of you stay away from your devices for some electronic detox over the Holidays. This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2022. But don’t despair, I will...

I don’t think we will ever experience anything like 2022 regarding conferences. This was the year we all went back to meeting in person after the two dark years of the pandemic. As one of the privileged able to travel to speak at a significant number of conferences, I got...