The second stop of the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Garden State JUG in New Jersey.
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Gerrit first did a talk about navigating the JVM landscape. Then I did a talk about Jakarta EE 10 where I introduced two brand new demos. One was using preview features of Java 21 which was well timed since Java 21 was released yesterday. The other demo used a beta for the new Jakarta Data specification in Jakarta EE 11. Both went well. I just had to google how to set up compiling with preview features in Maven on the fly since I did a git checkout .
right before the talk and had forgotten to commit my new changes. Google to the rescue…