Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE!
This week, I was in Montreal for ConFoo. The conference season is over us, and already next week, I will be in Atlanta for Devnexus. At Devnexus, I will be managing the Jakarta EE booth in addition to speaking and attending the JUG Leader’s Summit and the Java Champions Summit. Devnexus is the premier Java conference in the US. I am looking so much forward to meeting old and new friends there.
Last week, I wrote Will AI Kill Open Source? While writing it, I decided that it is probably going to be enough material for several posts, turning it into a blog series. Stay tuned for the next post in the series.
Finally, it seems like the topic of AI is popping op on the agenda of the Jakarta EE Platform call again. When I started bringing it up about a year ago, there was a fair amount of skepticism so I am happy to see that it was discussed in last week’s call even if I wasn’t present. Things are moving so fast these days and it is important to position Jakarta EE in all of this. Maybe a start could be to create an opinionated MCP server for Jakarta EE. Or maybe a SkillsJar for Jakarta EE? We won’t know unless we discuss it. By the way, SkillsJars is a project by James Ward where skills for agents are packaged as JARs and distributed via Maven Central. I will definitely write more about it in a later post.
