Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am on vacation in Indonesia this week, so this post will be a tad shorter than usual. Java is always close. Right now closer than ever for me since it is just over the horizon. Jakarta is there...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here’s some good news! The Jakarta NoSQL project is ready to release version 1.0 of the specification. At the moment, they are putting together the last bits and pieces of the material required for the release review by the...

It has been a goal for a very long time to have at least one Javaforum Malmö event each quarter of the year. We didn’t manage that last year, but hopefully 2025 is the year when we are back on track. It certainly started well with more than twenty people...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The latest news about the refactoring of the TCK for Jakarta EE 11 is that the team is getting closer to releasing Jakarta EE Web Profile 11. There are just a small number of tests remaining to be refactored...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 was released in December. You can check out all the details on the updated Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 specification page. The next out will be Jakarta EE Web Profile 11, which will be...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025, with more to come. I hope you enjoy these weekly updates of what’s happening in the community in general, and Jakarta EE in particular. Most of us are...

It has become my tradition to summarize the conference year in a post on New Year’s Eve. If 2023 was a good conference year, then 2024 was even better! I spoke at or participated in more than 40 events across the World. I traveled to 31 different countries and visited...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I hope you’re all enjoying some weeks off work. I certainly am! It’s been a while since I had this much time at home. In fact, I have two months of not traveling for work at all. Since...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I hope most of you are having some time off work now, and most likely have better things to do than reading my ramblings on a Sunday at the end of December. We did release Jakarta EE Core...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile concluded successfully this week and the artifactI is now available in Maven Central. This may seem like a small thing, but it is actually a major milestone for the Jakarta...