Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The discussions regarding inclusion of new specifications in Jakarta EE 12 continued in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. Jakarta Query and Jakarta NoSQL are the most likely candidates. In addition, potentially fold the Jakarta Debugging Support for Other...

The second edition of the Jalapeño unconference was held in Cancun, Mexico September 13-14. The intention by having it this weekend was to get the Mexican Java community to be able to bring their family for the long weekend since September 15 is a holiday in Mexico. This didn’t really...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I attended Community Over Code 2025 in Minneapolis. And, as I am writing this, I am in Cancun for this year’s edition of Jalapeño. Jakarta EE 12 moves forward toward the first milestone. We are still in...

Community Over Code is a very community oriented conference, and the 2025 edition was no exception. It is by and for the ASF committers and projects. The usual greeting phrase is not “What is your name?” , “Where are you from?” ,or “Where do you work?”, but rather “What (Apache)...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Norway for JavaZone 2025 where I presented the talk titled The Past, the Present, and the Future of Enterprise Java. I have done this talk a couple of times, and even if the overall...

It’s been three years since last time I spoke at JavaZone, so it was very good to be back this year. The usual venue in downtown Oslo is under renovation, so the entire conference had relocated to Lillestrøm. It is just a 10 minute train ride north of Oslo, so...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform calls started up again this week after a three week summer break. I see that we have been a bit slow in publishing the minutes. I will try to get that done as soon as...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I toured South America on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025. I visited Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Even if it is not my usual Java crows, It is great to visit the communities on these tours. The...

My second and last stop on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025 was São Paulo. This event, GUOB Tech Day 2025 was organised by the Brazilian Oracle User Group (GUOB) and about 300 attendees showed up. I presented a talk titled The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java as one...

This is the second time I am participating in the LAOUC Community Tour. My first stop was Buenos Aires and the event organized by the Argentinian Oracle User Group. Due to the heavy rain in Buenos Aires this Wednesday, the number of attendees were a quite a bit lower than...