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

While the heatwave is hanging over Western Europe, I am heading south for the Code the Continuum Hackathon in Gagliari where I will be responsible for the Jakarta EE related challenge. There are around 50 registered participants, where the majority are students at the University of Gagliari. The participants opting for the Jakarta EE challenge will implement The Hourglass Model using Jakarta EE and integrating with Artificial Intelligence. I look forward to see solutions they will come up with.

The work with Jakarta EE 12 moves forward with weekly Jakarta EE Platform calls. In Jakarta RESTful Web Services, there is a discussions going on about lifting the rather stringent process the project has for handling pull requests. I hope the committers will chime in and state their opinion. The more the merrier.

The CFP for JakartaOne Livestream 2026 is open. It closes on September 8, but don’t wait until then by submitting your talk. Get it done before the summer vacations so you have one less thing to thing of when returning back to work.