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Welcome to the seventy-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The 2021 JVM Ecosystem Report by Snyk was published this week. The focus of the report is on the most important aspects for Today’s JVM developers. The report shows that Java SE 11 is the dominant version of Java in production...

As I mentioned in Hashtag Jakarta EE #76, the Jakarta EE Platform project is in the process of determining the Java SE requirements for Jakarta EE 10. In this post, I try to shed some light on the implications of the various options currently up for a vote. What do...

Welcome to the seventy-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the goals for the Jakarta EE Platform project is to define a predictable way the Jakarta EE specifications are aligned with Java SE. For example: Which Java SE version should Jakarta EE 10 require? This is one of the...

Welcome to the seventy-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform project does not rest on its laurels! Vivid discussions are going in the weekly platform calls as well as on the mailing lists. Read the minutes from the platform calls to keep informed in case you are...

Welcome to the seventy-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED! Here’s what you should do now: Step 1: Update your pom.xml jakarta.platform jakarta.jakartaee-api 9.1.0 Step 2: Migrate to jakarta.* namespace Follow this migration guide for the namespace migration. Step 3: Run Download the Jakarta...

Join us in celebrating a new release of Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Working Group Releases Jakarta EE 9.1 as Industry Continues to Embrace Open Source Enterprise Java! Jakarta EE 9.1 adds support for Java SE 11 runtimes to the foundational Jakarta EE 9 release. This gives developers more flexibility...

Welcome to the seventy-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 will be released on Tuesday, May 25, 2021! Stay tuned for announcements on this blog, the jakarta.ee website, Jakarta EE on Twitter, and a bunch of other places. But, we don’t rest there. The work with Jakarta EE...

Welcome to the seventy-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It...

Welcome to the seventy-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Let’s look at Jakarta EE 10! By filtering on the EE10 label in our GitHub issue tracker, you will find the list of topics currently under discussion. I would like to highlight a couple of the issues. Jakarta EE 10 Direction...

Welcome to the seventieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE 9.1 release is coming up shortly. The release review ballot for ratification of the specification will start this week. A special detail regarding this release is that there will be at least three, possibly four, compatible implementations used...