Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week was very productive for the TCK Project. Different options for how to be able to deliver Jakarta EE 11 was discussed. Among those a hybrid approach to require parts of the TCK to be run the old...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Even if progress is being made with refactoring the Jakarta EE Platform TCK, the effort is in desperate need of more resources to complete the work in a timely matter. If you have any experience with TCK work, your...

When I got the opportunity to be a part of the LAOUC Community Tour 2024 with two talks in Paraguay, I immediately accepted. This was my first visit to the country. It is not the first destination that comes to mind, and I had to google what the name of...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Another short summer update. The update for Jakarta EE 11 is about the same as last week. We are still waiting for an estimated delivery date from the Jakarta EE TCK Project. Follow the GitHub Project board for the...

Open Community for Java, a part of OCX 2024, will bring Java enthusiasts, developers, community leaders, and influential thinkers to share insights, challenges, and successes in the Java ecosystem. The event will take place October 22-24 2024 in Mainz, Germany.  Open Community for Java is the ultimate gathering for those...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Summer is still around, and the refactoring work of the Jakarta EE Platform TCK moves on. According to the Jakarta EE TCK Project, they will soon be able to empirically derive a date for when the work can be...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The work with Jakarta EE 11 continued while I was at JConf Dominicana, JCrete, and a short vacation thereafter. Since a couple of specification projects have published service releases to fix minor issues in their API artifacts or Java...

Attending JCrete has become a tradition for me. It is high up there among my favorite events and probably my favorite location. Whenever possible, I take some time off before or after the conference to explore the Island of Crete. Every day at JCrete starts with a morning run. You...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am taking a week off, so this will be a rather short update. Last week was the week of JCrete 2024. I will publish a blog post about this year’s edition as soon as I am home from...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived back home from JConf Dominica 2024, and have a couple of hours to pack my bags before heading out again for JCrete 2024. Busy times for a developer advocate, but so incredibly great to be...