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Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy of Hashtag Jakarta EE! While the work is being wrapped up on the TCK for Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile, we the planning for Jakarta EE 12 is entering a new stage. Jared Anderson, in his capacity of the release lead for Jakarta...

Boston Java Users was the last stop of my mini-tour of US East Coast JUGs. Quite a crowd gathered at Oracle’s premises in Burlington for pizza and tech talks. The event started with a lightning talk about LLMs by Srijha Kalyan. She even did a demo of DeepSeek on her...

The second stop on my US East JUG Tour was Connecticut JUG. Ryan Cuprak has been the JUG-Leader of this group since 2003 and is still going strong. This was their second in-person meeting since the pandemic. The location of the event was at the beautiful campus of Trinity College...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting New York Java SIG as the first stop of my mini-tour of US North East Java User Groups. Around 20 members showed up for my presentation titled Jakarta EE Meets AI. It was my first time presenting at the New York Java User...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I spoke at the Madrid JUG. We also had a panel where my colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation talked about the work they do to support the open-source community. Next week, I will go on a North...

The Madrid JUG is organised together with the Madrid Groovy User Group. It is a great idea to combine user groups of similar tech areas, both for increasing attendance as well cross-pollinating between communities. The event started with my presentation titled Boost Performance and Developer Productivity with Jakarta EE 11...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! While the last pieces of the Jakarta EE 11 TCK are being put together, the topic of Jakarta EE 12 is really getting some traction in the Jakarta EE Platform Project. It is great to see the discussions around...

Software-defined vehicles sit at the crossroads of automotive and software development – two fields where, sadly, women have historically been underrepresented. The good news is that this convergence presents a unique opportunity to bridge the gender gap by joining forces, sharing experiences, and uniting talents from both domains. Automotive and...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am still enjoying time off in Indonesia, but will be back in business again this week. I am happy to see the Jakarta Config specification is finally gaining some momentum again. This is a specification we wanted included...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am on vacation in Indonesia this week, so this post will be a tad shorter than usual. Java is always close. Right now closer than ever for me since it is just over the horizon. Jakarta is there...