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Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here is this week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status. Since there were no ballots that closed this week, there are still ten approved and two ballots ongoing. These two will end on Tuesday. Eight specifications are almost ready for their ballot...

Welcome to the thirty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Time for this week’s cake, or pie (chart) to be specific…The current status for Jakarta EE 9 is that ten specifications have been approved, two ballots are ongoing and five are almost ready for ballot. The only specifications that have not...

Welcome to the thirty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s status pie for the Jakarta EE 9 specifications shows that five specifications have been approved, five are ongoing and ten are near being ready for ballot. All the five ongoing ballots will close this upcoming week. The number of...

Welcome to the thirty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s status of the ballots for the Jakarta EE 9 specifications is that there are still three passed, but now there are seven ongoing ballots. Of these seven, two will close this week. Some of those that are close to...

Welcome to the thirty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9 is chugging along. There are three specifications that have passed the ballot for approval by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee and two ballots that are ongoing. More are expected to start this week. We hit a bump in...

Welcome to the thirty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I held a JetBrains Live Webinar titled Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond. The recording of the webinar is embedded below. The highlight of the session, in my opinion, is the Q&A section at the end. So if you don’t...

Welcome to the thirty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned in last week’s Hashtag, the Jakarta EE 9 release will be postponed. We have not decided on a date yet, but I would be very surprised if we are delayed more than a little over a month. We...

Welcome to the thirty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am still enjoying the last couple of days of my vacation, so I will be brief… We knew that the schedule to get Jakarta EE 9 out was tight, and as it turns out that it was a little too...

Welcome to the thirty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I admit that I haven’t stayed 100% up-to-date on what’s been going on in the Jakarta EE community the last week. It’s vacation time, and my focus has been on other things than staying connected. Things like early morning dip in...

Welcome to the thirtieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It’s vacation time, but the hashtag series continues… The Jakarta EE Working Group has created a Jakarta EE 9 Tools Vendor Datasheet that collects information regarding the Jakarta EE 9 release. Specifically around the namespace change from javax.* to jakarta.*. Please...