Ivar Grimstad's blog

I know, you are probably pretty tired of elections by now. But please, take the time to submit your vote in the Javas Community Process ( JCP) Executive Committee ( EC) elections. The ballot is open for voting until November 16, 2020. All the relevant information can be found on...

We are ready to move forward with the namespace change from javax.mvc.* to jakarta.mvc.* for Jakarta MVC. This will be released as Jakarta MVC 2.0. According to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP), we need to engage in a plan review with the Specification Committee. The key goal of...

Welcome to the forty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Look at that! All Jakarta EE 9 Specification ballots are either ongoing or done! This means that given the ballots are completed successfully, we are ready to release Jakarta EE 9 on Friday, November 20, 2020. Wednesday this week, we visited...

The election for the Java Community Process ( JCP) Executive Committee ( EC) has started! The ballot is open for voting until November 16, 2020. But don’t wait, submit your vote today! Check out the nominees for the 2020 Executive Committee Election if you want to see who the candidates...

The program for JakartaOne Livestream 2020 is ready! Join us for a full day of technical content, fun, and celebration of the Jakarta EE 9 release! Thanks to the program committee for reviewing the talks and completing the schedule! Register now to reserve your spot!

Welcome to the forty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The pie chart for Jakarta EE 9 progress this week shows that twenty-two specifications have passed their ballot! The seven ongoing ballots will close the coming week, which leaves us with the platform specification and the five specifications that depend on...

Last week, I had a community chat with Markus Karg. We talked about community engagement in Jakarta EE and the upcoming Jakarta EE 9 release. Check out the entire chat below. The Jakarta EE Community Chats is a series of short informal interviews in Studio Jakarta EE with members of...

The 2020 elections for the Java Community Process ( JCP) Executive Committee ( EC) have started. The ballot will be open for voting between November 3 and 16. The Eclipse Foundation has been participating in the JCP Executive Committee since 2007 with the primary goal to represent the interests of...

Welcome to the forty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Time for this week’s Jakarta EE 9 status. We now have twenty specifications approved and nine ballots ongoing. The remaining six are the Platform Specification and five specifications that depends on it. The Platform Specification is the one with most work...

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have a confession to make. As one of the few, or maybe the only one in our industry, I have never read the book or seen the movie… Anyway, 42 is the answer and this is issue number 42 of...