Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I am on my way home from JavaOne 2026 with a bag full of swag and a head full of inspiration and new ideas. One of the ideas has already resulted in a brand new abstract that I have submitted to a couple of upcoming conferences. Let’s hope the program committees are as excited as I am about it. If accepted, I think the conference attendees choosing to listen to my talk are up for a treat.

Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 3 is coming up. There is some activity in various specification projects, which is good. Others, on the other hand, could benefit from a little wakening call. There was a welcoming update from Jakarta RESTful Web Services in the platform call this week. It seems like they are making some progress in the CDI replacement of @Context.

You may be using skills to augment your AI Agents in some way or the other. SkillsJars offer a simple solution to publish skills as JAR-files on Maven Central. It is a pretty cool project created by James Ward. I recommend taking a look at it. It may simplify your workflow significantly if you are moving a lot of skills around by copy-paste on the file system. With SkillsJars, you simply add them as dependencies to your project.

A cool thing that was announced at JavaOne this year was the reopening of Project Detroit. The purpose of this project is to bring JavaScript and Python to the JVM. The project was brought to life as a result of the Foreign Function & Memory API from Project Panama.