Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I wrote last week, all the Jakarta EE 11 specifications are now finished and the remaining work to get Jakarta EE 11 released is to finalize the refactoring of the TCK and have at least one open-source compatible...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! All the specifications that will be part of Jakarta EE 11 have passed their release review and have been, or are in the process of being released. The efforts are now on finalizing the TCK and wrapping up the...

UPDATED: It was pointed out to me by Rosaria that I had missed including the picture of us about to go kayaking in my post. This obviously had to be corrected! Scroll down to the bottom of the post to read about #kayakingWithJakartaEE. Once a year, the Eclipse Foundation comes...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was speaking at DevBCN 2024 in Barcelona. My next conference appearance will be at Developer Week ’24, which takes place in Nürnberg on July 1-5. But even if conference season is winding down for summer, I...

My second trip to Barcelona in less than two weeks was to DevBCN. This community-driven conference is always a pleasure to speak at. And it doesn’t hurt that it is located in Barcelona… This time we had an Eclipse Foundation booth staffed by Carmen, Arjan, and yours truly. We even...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There were no conferences for me last week. In the upcoming week, I am going back to Barcelona for DevBCN. As in previous years, we have a booth. You can find me there and have a chat about Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was again a busy week with two conferences back-to-back. First I went to Sofia, Bulgaria for JPrime before I continued to Barcelona, Spain for Spring I/O. Both conferences are great, well-organized events with a welcoming community. So, over...

This was my first time attending and speaking at Spring I/O. The conference is located in Barcelona and attracts around 1200 attendees from all over the World. The two-day conference has four parallel tracks as well as two workshop tracks. Spring I/O is an extremely well-organized conference. Everything flows smoothly...

JPrime in Sofia is one of my favorite conferences. The event has two tracks, which means that you always have a good crowd even if there is a superstar speaker in the other room at the same time. The venue has a big outdoor patio and is surrounded by a...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There was good progress this week in getting the release reviews for Jakarta EE 11 specifications underway. Nine specifications have been approved, five are under review, and two are ready and waiting for the Jakarta EE Specification Committee to...