Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I am falling a little behind on the event posts, but I assure you that I will post reports from ShiftAPPens and JavaConnect KE shortly. In the meantime, check out this update from the GlassFish project. Among other things, GlassFish 9.0.0-M2 is updated with Jakarta EE 12 implementation and Jakarta REST integration with Jakarta Authorization.

Another item in my backlog is also to write the continuation of my article about AI and open source. It is starting to materialize in my mind, so it shouldn’t last too long before I am ready to write it up. Note that I am not using any AI tooling to write my posts. I take pride in my work, and don’t want to go down that path.

The progress for the specifications that have been asked to produce updates for Milestone 4 of Jakarta EE 12 looks very promising. Check out the minutes from this week’s call for the details. Another piece of good news regarding Jakarta EE 12 is that the Jakarta NoSQL project may be able to merge the features planned for Jakarta NoSQL 1.2 in Jakarta NoSQL 1.1. That means that it will certainly be a stronger candidate for inclusion in Jakarta EE 12.