Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The long-awaited release of Jakarta EE 11 Platform is imminent. The pull request with the material for the release review has been created by the Jakarta EE Platform project. Eclipse GlassFish passes the TCK on both Java SE 17...

Spring I/O 2025 was a great experience! It is an extremely well-organized conference with an awesome community. It was my second time as a speaker, and I will definitely send talk abstracts to the upcoming editions as well. It does not hurt that it is organized in Barcelona in May...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just returned from Spring I/O 2025 in Barcelona. A write-up from this conference will follow shortly. This was my last conference in May, so I have a couple of weeks break before the next one, which will...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I a was in Cologne for JCON Europe 2025 where we among other things celebrated 30 Years of Java. Check out my write-up from the event to learn more. Next week, I will be going to Barcelona...

JCON Europe 2025 was great! Period! It is such a flawlessly organized conference with an ever present community spirit. This year was maybe even more special than usual because of the 30 Years of Java celebrations. Eclipse Foundation had a booth where we featured the Jakarta EE, Adoptium, and Eclipse...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This Monday I hosted Javaforum Malmö where we got an interesting presentation by Artur Skowroński about AI in the context of the JVM as he was passing by Malmö on his way to Devoxx UK. If you are a...

The second event of Javaforum Malmø took place this Monday. We were fortunate enough to have Artur Skowroński visit us and talk about JVM in the Age of AI. Those present experienced a fast-paced presentation that gave a complete overview of all the different projects and initiatives going on to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The service outage is more than just your regular neighborhood outage. It seems to be a massive breakdown of a storage cluster that is a central piece on which all the Jenkins CI instances depend. The Jakarta EE TCK...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was in Bangalore speaking at GIDS. Read all about it in my write-up from the event. I now have a couple of weeks at home before my conferences in May, which will be JCON Europe, followed...

This was my sixth time speaking at GIDS! My first time was in 2016, so I have only missed out on a few editions during the last 10 years. It is a great conference, with a very engaged audience, so I am happy to be a regular speaker there. The...