Jakarta EE

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was speaking at DevBCN 2024 in Barcelona. My next conference appearance will be at Developer Week ’24, which takes place in Nürnberg on July 1-5. But even if conference season is winding down for summer, I...

My second trip to Barcelona in less than two weeks was to DevBCN. This community-driven conference is always a pleasure to speak at. And it doesn’t hurt that it is located in Barcelona… This time we had an Eclipse Foundation booth staffed by Carmen, Arjan, and yours truly. We even...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There were no conferences for me last week. In the upcoming week, I am going back to Barcelona for DevBCN. As in previous years, we have a booth. You can find me there and have a chat about Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was again a busy week with two conferences back-to-back. First I went to Sofia, Bulgaria for JPrime before I continued to Barcelona, Spain for Spring I/O. Both conferences are great, well-organized events with a welcoming community. So, over...

This was my first time attending and speaking at Spring I/O. The conference is located in Barcelona and attracts around 1200 attendees from all over the World. The two-day conference has four parallel tracks as well as two workshop tracks. Spring I/O is an extremely well-organized conference. Everything flows smoothly...

JPrime in Sofia is one of my favorite conferences. The event has two tracks, which means that you always have a good crowd even if there is a superstar speaker in the other room at the same time. The venue has a big outdoor patio and is surrounded by a...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There was good progress this week in getting the release reviews for Jakarta EE 11 specifications underway. Nine specifications have been approved, five are under review, and two are ready and waiting for the Jakarta EE Specification Committee to...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Berlin-Brandenburg Java User Group. The event was conveniently located near Berlin Hauptbahnhof. The around 25 attendees got to see the premiere of a brand new talk I have prepared for Spring I/O next week. The talk is titled Why Spring Matters...

I’ll let you in on a little secret about how to increase your chances of getting accepted to speak at a conference. It is as simple as this: Submit Early! Most conferences either accept talks on a rolling basis or have an expressed early-bird acceptance. Since most speakers tend to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It was a busy week for me with two conferences back-to-back. First out was JCON Europe 2024 in Cologne, Germany followed by GeeCON 2024 in Kraków, Poland. Both these conferences are very well organized and excellent for networking, and...