Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are down to just a handful of failures before Eclipse GlassFish passes the Jakarta EE 10 TCK for the Jakarta EE Platform and Jakarta EE Web Profile. WildFly has already submitted a certification request for Jakarta EE...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a week without traveling, I will be going to Turkey the upcoming weekend for Java Day Istanbul 2022. I have spoken at an online version of this conference before, but this is the first time in person...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the objectives of Jakarta EE 10 is to make sure that applications run as expected on both Java SE 11 and 17. That means that the Platform TCK must be passed by compatible implementations on both...

This was my first time speaking at GeeCON. It is a yearly three-day conference in Kraków, Poland, with around 700 participants. This was the 12th edition of the conference. There were three parallel tracks. My talk titled Jakarta EE 10 is Coming YOUR Way, was on the second day of...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE 10 release is on track! All specifications targeting this release have started their release reviews. The focus of the Jakarta EE Platform project in the coming weeks will be to wrap up the changes for...

That was Jfokus 2022. As usual, an excellent conference hosted by Mattias and his team! My talk titled Get Ready for Jakarta EE 10 went well. A couple of hours before the talk, I added a brand new demo of the Java SE Bootstrap feature of Jakarta RESTful Web Services...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Today is the day we have been counting down to over the last couple of months. It is May 1st, 2022. The deadline for specifications aiming for inclusion in Jakarta EE 10. Ballot Ongoing These specifications had their...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are getting closer and closer to May 1! As a reminder, this is the deadline for a component specification to have their release review ballot started in order to be included in Jakarta EE 10. Jakarta Activation...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week was dominated by Devnexus 2022 in Atlanta. If you haven’t done so already, check out my short summary from the conference. The work with Jakarta EE 10 continues even if many of the active participants were...

I think it is safe to say that Devnexus 2022 was a success. The Atlanta JUG really knows how to organize a conference! Special thanks to Vincent and Pratik for their commitment to making every conference the best ever. For many, especially in the US, this was the first in-person...