Jakarta EE

Welcome to the seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most common questions I get when talking about Jakarta EE is: “How can I help?”. Well, here is a suggestion: The post “ Help wanted: improved signature test tool” by Bill Shannon on the Jakarta EE Community mailing...

Welcome to the sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! On the fun side, I was made aware that my shoutout for the Hashtag series may be a little confusing as you can see in my conversation with Ronnie Zolverda. I didn’t want to use #5 to indicate number 5 since...

The next conference I will be attending is Devnexus in Atlanta which is organized by the Atlanta Java User Group. This year, Devnexus is extended with a JUG Leader Summit scheduled the day before the conference where there will be more than 40 Java User Groups represented. In my session...

Welcome to the fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This weekend, I attended my first FOSDEM. This is a free event that takes place in Brussels every year. It is quite an experience with fully packed rooms and crowded corridors. Sessions are short (25 mins) and focused. Absolutely a recommendation...

This post is meant to clear up some misunderstandings that occurred during a discussion thread on the Jakarta EE Community mailing list. Some of this is a repetition of what I described in Jakarta EE 9 Shaping Up in December, but such an important topic cannot be stressed enough. The...

Mark Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Day on March 30 on your calendars. This all-day event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe will be the first time the best and brightest minds from the Java and the Kubernetes communities join forces at a single event to collaborate and share their expertise...

Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe will be the first time the best and brightest minds from the Java ecosystem and the Kubernetes ecosystem come together at one event to collaborate and share their expertise. The all-day event on March 30 includes expert talks, demos...

Welcome to the fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We’re on a roll here! I can’t believe it is already four weeks since I started this series! Stay tuned for announcements about Jakarta MVC! A little on the side of Jakarta EE, but still related is that the MVC 1.0...

Welcome to the third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Most of this week was spent at the Eclipse Foundation office in Ottawa. It is great to have the opportunity to meet the people I work with daily in person once in a while. On Tuesday, January 14, there was an...

On behalf of the Jakarta EE Working Group, I am excited to announce the unanimous approval of the plan for Jakarta EE 9, with an anticipated mid-2020 release. Please note that the project team believes this timeline is aggressive, so think of this as a plan of intent with early...