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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...

I had the pleasure of talking with Edwin Derks about Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, and engaging in the community. 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 Jakarta EE community. Please contact me...

Welcome to the forty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE 9 status pie for this week shows that we still have twelve ratified specifications. This is as expected since no ballots were scheduled to conclude this week. Of the nine ongoing ballots, four will close this week. There...

Welcome to the fortieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status shows some progress! We now have twelve specifications approved and four ballots that started last week. There are thirteen that are close to being ready for ballots and only six that need a little...

Today is exactly one year since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation. It started out as expected, with a lot of speaking engagement at developer conferences around the World as well as an increased online presence and activity in the community. Then Covid-19 hit...

You don’t want to miss these Jakarta EE talks at EclipseCon 2020. You may also want to check out the talks in the Cloud Native Java category. Visit the event site for full information about the talks and the speakers. This year’s EclipseCon is a free, virtual event. Please register...

Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here is this week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status. Since there were no ballots that closed this week, there are still ten approved and two ballots ongoing. These two will end on Tuesday. Eight specifications are almost ready for their ballot...

Welcome to the thirty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Time for this week’s cake, or pie (chart) to be specific… The current status for Jakarta EE 9 is that ten specifications have been approved, two ballots are ongoing and five are almost ready for ballot. The only specifications that have...

Welcome to the thirty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s status pie for the Jakarta EE 9 specifications shows that five specifications have been approved, five are ongoing and ten are near being ready for ballot. All the five ongoing ballots will close this upcoming week. The number of...