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Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I hope most of you are having some time off work now, and most likely have better things to do than reading my ramblings on a Sunday at the end of December. We did release Jakarta EE Core...

The Automotive industry was used to focusing on the hardware aspects, being driven by the mechanical components of the vehicle. This, however, has changed approximately 50 years ago with the introduction of relatively simple software that was primarily used for engine control. Relatively simple software then evolved into more complex...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile concluded successfully this week and the artifactI is now available in Maven Central. This may seem like a small thing, but it is actually a major milestone for the Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile is complete! This means that the specification is ratified and can be released. This is a milestone on several levels. First, we released (at least part of) Jakarta EE 11...

The sixth edition of JakartaOne Livestream is a wrap! Last year, we started the tradition of creating a video for our Keynote. Here is a teaser for this Year’s video. You can see the full length version on the Jakarta EE YouTube channel. That is also where you will find...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! My last conference of November was Porto Tech Hub 2024. It has been a busy couple of months, and it isn’t over just yet. There are two conferences on my agenda in December. First up is the sixth...

I visited Porto once back in the ’90s when I was Interrailing (traveling by train on a relatively affordable ticket valid in most European countries) across Europe with some friends. But that was a while ago, so it was about time I returned. The day before the conference, there was...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I visited Czechia on a min-tour of a couple of Czech Java User Groups. I spoke at Prague JUG on Tuesday and Brno JUG on Wednesday. In the upcoming week, I will go to Porto to speak...

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...