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Welcome to issue number two hundred and one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The upcoming week will be busy with three talks at two conferences. I will attend Øredev 2023 here in Malmö on Wednesday before heading to Ede to speak at J-Fall on Thursday. The talk is titled Prepare for Jakarta...

During this year's EclipseCon, the Eclipse Foundation staff offered a tutorial on best practices in open-source projects. For people who could not be there or want to learn more, repositories are available for everyone to re-use! Repository Best Practices Tutorial The first tutorial focuses on securing repositories. Your task is...

Welcome to issue number two hundred of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Wow! 200 posts! The Milestone 1 release of Jakarta EE 11 is approaching. Some of the component specifications have started to produce their M1 releases. Two of them are Jakarta Annotations 3.0 and Jakarta Data 1.0. Check them out in the...

I am delighted today to announce that Sparkplug won an IoT Edge Computing Excellence Award from IoT Evolution! This achievement underscores the growing maturity of the specification and its relevance to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Congratulations to the committers and contributors of the Sparkplug specification project! From...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’ve always been a big fan of Donald Duck, and I still have a subscription so each week a new issue of Kalle Anka (that’s what Donald is called in Sweden) is delivered to my mailbox. Since I have...

I have written a daily recap from each day of EclipseCon 2023, and here’s the summary of it all. Don’t worry, I will not repeat myself. It all started with Community Day on Monday, followed by three intense days of the regular EclipseCon from Tuesday through Thursday. Read all about...

Day 3 of EclipseCon 2023 was a bit quieter than the previous ones. I guess some of the attendees returned home early after a couple of intense conference days. Emily and I hosted a panel session about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. Since the two of us were the only panelists...

We had the Jakarta EE Office Hours on the second day of EclipseCon 2023. The concept of office hours is to let attendees ask questions directly to the Eclipse Foundation staff involved in a particular area during scheduled slots. Since it is during sessions, it wasn’t exactly hectic. I had...

We’re proud to share that the Eclipse Foundation has completed the security audit for Eclipse Jetty, one of the world’s most widely deployed web server and servlet containers. All users are encouraged to upgrade to versions containing changes addressing all conclusions of the audit: Eclipse Jetty 12.0.0, 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and...

On the first day of EclipseCon 2023, Tanja and I had a three-hour Jakarta EE Workshop. Since this was the very first time we did this workshop, we were a little unsure of it would go. It turned out to go very well, even if the material was a little...