Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to the fifty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are two weeks into the new year already, and I want to remind the specification teams that about the deadline for submitting a plan review in order to be a candidate for inclusion in the Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The...

Welcome to the fifty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The main goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to support the Java SE 11 runtime. The APIs will still be compiled to Java SE 8 level in order to be usable to both Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. That...

Welcome to the fifty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! It’s 2021 and a year since I wrote the very first Hashtag Jakarta EE. I find it useful for myself to write these short recaps of what’s going on in the community, and I hope you enjoy them...

Welcome to the fifty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2020. But don’t worry, I will continue these weekly updates in 2021 as well. This week, MicroProfile 4.0 was released! It’s been a long wait since the previous release ( 3.3) back in...

This post concludes the mini-series about how Jakarta MVC 2.0 moves through the steps involved in the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP). All the posts are listed here, so bookmark this page for reference if you are involved in, or planning to be involved in a Jakarta EE specification...

Welcome to the fifty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As we are ramping down to close 2020 and recharge for 2021, there are still things going on in the community. First, I would like to point you to the Studio Jakarta EE LIVE I had with Dalia this week where...

Jakarta MVC 2.0 passed the release review ballot and is now ratified as a final specification according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP). The last steps for the project team after the ballot are to release the staged artifacts to Maven Central and verify that all published information...

In the December 15 Platform Project call, the platform team made a couple of important decisions regarding the upcoming Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to ship Java SE 11 support as soon as possible. That means that we want to minimize releasing new API...

Welcome to the fiftieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Wow, fifty hashtags so far! Tuesday was a big day for the Jakarta EE community. That was the day of JakartaOne Livestream 2020. With this event, we officially announced Jakarta EE 9, even though it has been available in Maven Central...

I am happy to announce the first Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! And what a start! I have the honor of having Dalia Abo Sheasha as my special guest in this session. Dalia works as Developer Advocate at JetBrains, and the topic of this LIVE session is tooling support for Jakarta...