Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Next week is a big week for Jakarta EE! Releasing a milesone release of Jakarta EE 9 is a big milestone for the Jakarta EE community. It’s only 9 months since Jakarta EE 8 was released, so we are on track...

Welcome to the twenty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This has been a week of meetings. In addition to the regular Jakarta EE and MicroProfile calls, we also had the public JCP Executive Committee Meeting on Tuesday. The topic of this call was Java in Education. The presentation concludes with...

Welcome to the twenty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I started a series of Community Chats on the Studio Jakarta EE YouTube Channel. The first chat was with Ken Fogel. You can see the entire chat in the video below. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me if...

Welcome to the twenty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The work with Jakarta EE 9 is progressing, and we are looking forward to a milestone release at the end of June. There are so many moving parts in putting such a release together. All help is appreciated! Here is a...

Welcome to the twenty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is tempting to jump a couple of numbers and call this hashtag issue number 25 to match the 25 year anniversary or Java. But I decided that I will stay true to the numbering scheme to avoid confusion and leave...

25 years and still going strong! Java is everywhere. It is the #1 programming language in the World. And it continues to evolve! Java has been a part of my entire professional career. Let’s get together and celebrate the past 25 years and look ahead for the next 25! My...

Welcome to the twentieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The web page for the Starter for Jakarta EE is launched! So far, it is pretty limited, but we hope that the community can join us in making start.jakarta.ee the absolutely best place to get started with Jakarta EE. Please check...

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, we got a new project proposal for a Jakarta EE Specification! We finally got around to it and created the project proposal for Jakarta MVC. The proposal is to transfer MVC 1.0 ( JSR 371) to Jakarta EE. Eclipse...

Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the following video, you can watch an interview I did with Martijn Verburg regarding his nomination to the Jakarta EE Steering Group representing London Java Community. When talking about YouTube, I have been busy recording a couple of tech tips...

Welcome to the seventeenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The nomination period for the Jakarta EE Working group elections has closed. Now, it is up to the candidates to convince you why they should get YOUR vote. To help with this, I have offered each candidate a short Studio Jakarta...