Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE!
This week, I a was in Cologne for JCON Europe 2025 where we among other things celebrated 30 Years of Java. Check out my write-up from the event to learn more. Next week, I will be going to Barcelona for Spring I/O. It will be my second time speaking at this event. I expect that it will be just as awesome this year as it was a year ago.
The release of the Jakarta EE 11 Platform specification is right around the corner. The issues with the serivce outage that affected our Jenkins CI instances are now resolved, and the work is progressing. The release date is expected to be in June.
All the plans for Jakarta EE 12 have been completed and approved (with the exception of Jakarta Activation, which will have its plan review started on Monday).
Two interesting specifications that are now being moved over to the jakarta.* namespace are Jakarta Portlet and Jakarta Portlet Bridge. While the concept of portlets may at first thought feel like a blast from the past, it can also be seen as the revival of a stable, well-tested, robust way of creating Micro Frontends. Micro Frontends are defined as “An architectural style where independently deliverable frontend applications are composed into a greater whole”, and Jakarta Portlet enables the development of modular, reusable web components called portlets, hence reusable Micro Frontends.
