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Welcome to the fifty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was the weekend of Fosdem. I had a Jakarta EE talk on Saturday in the Foojay devroom. The talk was recorded and I was looking forward to wearing my new, nice T-shirt on the video during the Q&A. A last-minute...

As you probably are aware, the concept of a single reference implementation (RI) to prove that a specification is implementable does not exist in Jakarta EE. The Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP) mandates at least one compatible implementation (CI), but preferably as many as possible. Take a look at Arjan...

Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I wanted to take the opportunity to show you that I don’t always sit by my desk writing blog posts and attending virtual events. I do other stuff as well! At the end of this week, we got some days of...

Welcome to the fifty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is time for a new edition of Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! This time I have Emily Jiang from IBM with me in the studio. We will talk about MicroProfile 4.0 and I am pretty sure that Emily will show some...

In my post Migrate to Jakarta EE 9 last year, I wrote about how to migrate your application from the javax.* to the jakarta.* namespace. I think it is time to revisit this topic and outline the steps involved. In the recent versions of the Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond...

Welcome to the fifty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are two weeks into the new year already, and I want to remind the specification teams that about the deadline for submitting a plan review in order to be a candidate for inclusion in the Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The...

Welcome to the fifty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The main goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to support the Java SE 11 runtime. The APIs will still be compiled to Java SE 8 level in order to be usable to both Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. That...

Welcome to the fifty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! It’s 2021 and a year since I wrote the very first Hashtag Jakarta EE. I find it useful for myself to write these short recaps of what’s going on in the community, and I hope you enjoy them...

Welcome to the fifty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2020. But don’t worry, I will continue these weekly updates in 2021 as well. This week, MicroProfile 4.0 was released! It’s been a long wait since the previous release (3.3) back in February...

This post concludes the mini-series about how Jakarta MVC 2.0 moves through the steps involved in the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP). All the posts are listed here, so bookmark this page for reference if you are involved in, or planning to be involved in a Jakarta EE specification. Jakarta...