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We have struggled a little bit to get the Malmö JUG up and running again after the pandemic, but now it seems like we are on the roll again. The goal is to have at least one event each quarter, and the February 29 event yesterday was a great start...

I am happy to announce that Thomas Froment has joined the Eclipse Foundation as the Program Manager for the Eclipse IDE Working Group . The IDE Working Group is dedicated to ensuring the continued evolution, adoption, and sustainability of the Eclipse IDE suite of products, related technologies, and ecosystem. With...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventeen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now on my way home after a week in North America where I spoke at Philly JUG and ConFoo, my second tour overseas this year. The upcoming month will be dedicated to Europe. First up is Malmö...

This was my fourth time speaking at ConFoo in Montreal. It is a great conference, and you can deduct from the smooth operation that it has been organized before. In fact, this was the 22nd edition of ConFoo! Quite an accomplishment! I had two talks this year. The first one...

I had a great time speaking at the Philly JUG Yesterday! The topic of my talk was the implications of the namespace change from javax.* to jakarta.* in Jakarta EE 9 when migrating from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck. Before the event...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back from my vacation and I am ready to roll again. This week, I will cross the pond to speak at PhillyJUG on Tuesday before continuing to Montreal and ConFoo 2024 for the remainder of the week...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I started with a trip to Jfokus 2024 in Stockholm. Directly after that, I began a week of vacation, meaning I am diving in the Red Sea while you are reading this. The Jakarta EE Platform project...

Jfokus is an excellent conference, and the 2024 edition was no different from the previous ones. I have had the pleasure of being a fairly regular speaker there, and since they try to rotate the speakers a little I didn’t really expect to speak there this year. However, due to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I arrived back home from my January JUG Tour with visits to the JCP 25-Year Anniversary Party, Nashville JUG, Seattle JUG, and Portland JUG yesterday. But no rest for the brave. Already tomorrow, I am traveling to Stockholm for...

I decided to take the train from Seattle to Portland as it is the most convenient way of going between those cities unless you have a car. I’ve been told that this train usually is very reliable and punctual. This time, however, there was a mechanical issue with the train...