Welcome to issue number three hundred and nineteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE!
As I am writing this, I am sitting in my hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Me being here is actually as success story. I was supposed to present Jakarta EE at I Code Java on Tuesday and Wednesday. I have spoken at the conference twice before. Once in Cape Town and once here in Johannesburg. But that was back in 2018 and 2019. A couple of weeks ago the speakers got notified that the conference was cancelled. With flights and accommodations already booked, plans made, Phillip, Buhake and I scrambled and created a substitute event. With funds from the Eclipse Foundation concept of Open Community Meetup and the organisation of Jozi-JUG, we created JakartaOne by Jozi-JUG where Phillip and I will be presenting. The event has 136 registered attendees as of today.
It looks like the release of Jakarta EE 12 may be rescheduled to be in Q4 rather than Q1 this year. Most of the vendors are working on their Jakarta EE 11 implementations, and only a couple of specifications are in a good state for Jakarta EE 12. One of them is Jakarta Persistence 4.0 that is already implemented by a alpha release of Hibernate 8.
GlassFish 8.0.0 was released earlier this week, which means that the GlassFish project, lead by the wonderful folks at OmniFish, will be able start focusing on the Jakarta EE 12 implementation.
I also want to remind you about Open Community eXperience 2026 in Brussels on April 21-23. Registration is open. Make sure to secure you spot now, and show up to my talk.
