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Welcome to the sixty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We have tried to keep the overhead to a minimum with the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process ( EFSP). Compared to other specification processes, it is pretty lightweight. Both the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP) and the MicroProfile Specification Process (...

Welcome to the sixty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the major changes introduced with Jakarta EE over how it used to be is that the TCKs are available for free to anyone that wants to certify their implementation. I described how to do this in Compatible Implementations. This...

Welcome to the sixty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Tanja and I have been touring JUGs over the last couple of months. So far, we have visited JUGs (virtually) in India, South Africa, Sweden, Serbia, the USA, Poland, Germany, and Spain. And we don’t want to stop there! Please reach...

Welcome to the sixtieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned last week, the release plan for Jakarta EE 9.1 has been published. The target release date is the end of March 2021. GlassFish 6.1 now compiles and runs on Java SE 11, and the work with getting it...

Welcome to the fifty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I wrote a post about Compatible implementations of Jakarta EE specifications and how to get listed on the specification pages. This week, we got LeadPony Joy 2.1.0 listed as a compatible implementation of Jakarta JSON Processing 2.0. Great work...

Welcome to the fifty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was the weekend of Fosdem. I had a Jakarta EE talk on Saturday in the Foojay devroom. The talk was recorded and I was looking forward to wearing my new, nice T-shirt on the video during the Q&A. A last-minute...

As you probably are aware, the concept of a single reference implementation (RI) to prove that a specification is implementable does not exist in Jakarta EE. The Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP) mandates at least one compatible implementation (CI), but preferably as many as possible. Take a look at...

Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I wanted to take the opportunity to show you that I don’t always sit by my desk writing blog posts and attending virtual events. I do other stuff as well! At the end of this week, we got some days of...

Welcome to the fifty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is time for a new edition of Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! This time I have Emily Jiang from IBM with me in the studio. We will talk about MicroProfile 4.0 and I am pretty sure that Emily will show some...

In my post Migrate to Jakarta EE 9 last year, I wrote about how to migrate your application from the javax.* to the jakarta.* namespace. I think it is time to revisit this topic and outline the steps involved. In the recent versions of the Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond...