Ivar Grimstad's blog

On Tuesday this week I presented The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java at the Valencia JUG. In addition to my talk, we also had a short presentation from Tanja about how to contribute to Jakarta EE as well as a panel of Eclipse Foundation colleagues presenting what we...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference speaking season is starting up again. My first talk of the year will be at Valencia JUG where I will present The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java. After that, I will be attending FOSDEM in...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The 27th of January, the date for Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12, is fast approaching. You can check out the status on the Jakarta EE 12 GitHub planning board. As you can see, there is still a lot...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! My first post of 2026 will be very similar to the last of 2025. I hope everyone has had a wonderful couple of weeks of time during the Holidays. The first Jakarta EE Platform call will...

It is time to bid farewell to 2025 and welcome 2026. I was able to speak on five continents this year. We really should see if we can have a conference in Antarctica at some point. In addition to regular Java conferences and Java User Groups, I also attended and...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025. It is also a pretty short one since it is in the midst of the Holidays. A fun fact is that 313 (the number of this Hashtag) is the license...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and twelve of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Holiday season is over here, and most of us who are involved in Jakarta EE will take a break until the beginning of January. The next Jakarta EE Platform call will be on January 6. If you missed...

Since I already was in Paris to speak at the Paris JUG, I took the opportunity to attend Open Source Experience 2025 where Eclipse Foundation was a sponsor. It was great to be able to hang out with my colleagues and also help out a little at the booth. I...

On Tuesday last week, I presented The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java at the Paris JUG. The event started with a talk by Greg Wilkins about how Jetty is Staying relevant with Open Source driven innovation after 30 years. This was a special event celebrating the 30-year anniversary...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and eleven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I was in Paris where I spoke about Jakarta EE at the Paris JUG. I will post something about this in the upcoming week. I also attended the Open Source Experience while I was there. Expect a...