Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The 27th of January, the date for Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12, is fast approaching. You can check out the status on the Jakarta EE 12 GitHub planning board. As you can see, there is still a lot of work to be done in order to get all the specifications past Milestone 2. My guess is that most of the work will be carried out in the last week before the deadline, as it was done with Milestone 1 last year. If you want to avoid this stress and you have some time over, now is the time to look at what your favorite specification needs to do before January 27 for it to be a part of Milestone 2.

I am happy to announce that Bruno Souza will visit Malmö and speak at Javaforum on February 10 at Foo Café. He will talk about how The Reputation Formula can help you turbocharge your career.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Happy New Year!

My first post of 2026 will be very similar to the last of 2025. I hope everyone has had a wonderful couple of weeks of time during the Holidays. The first Jakarta EE Platform call will be on Tuesday, January 6. All meeting minutes for 2025 have been published. Check them out if you want to update yourself on the discussions. In total, we had 46 meetings last year.

By the way, when I asked Copilot to calculate the number of meetings, it gave me 49. When I pointed out that I got 46, it changed its mind and agreed. Gemini gave me 44 with the same prompt, but when I pointed out that it should be 46, it insisted on it being right and that I was wrong. It turned out that it had ignored the meetings in December. So I guess it was operating on old data, even if it was provided a fresh link. The joy of fact-checking Artificial Intelligence continues in 2026…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025. It is also a pretty short one since it is in the midst of the Holidays. A fun fact is that 313 (the number of this Hashtag) is the license plate number on Donald Duck’s car.

We will be back with the Jakarta EE Platform call on January 6. Until then, check out this post by Lenny Primak about how he was able to run a 20-year-old application on modern Jakarta EE 11 without much effort.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and twelve of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The Holiday season is over here, and most of us who are involved in Jakarta EE will take a break until the beginning of January. The next Jakarta EE Platform call will be on January 6. If you missed any of the calls, you can always check out the archive of meeting minutes.

There are no more conferences or events planned for the rest of this year, but my schedule for the first months of next year is starting to fill up. Check it out on my page on the Jakarta EE website. It is continuously being updated with the events I will be present at.

The videos from JakartaOne Livestream 2025 are published. Check out the playlist on YouTube.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and eleven of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Last week I was in Paris where I spoke about Jakarta EE at the Paris JUG. I will post something about this in the upcoming week. I also attended the Open Source Experience while I was there. Expect a couple of posts about these two events shortly.

On Tuesday this week, we will have the last Jakarta EE Platform call for 2025. The calendar has already been updated with the entries for next year. It will be the same time and place as the previous years, but you may want to update your calendar with the new entries unless you subscribe to the calendar and get the automatically. Remember tha you can always check out the minutes if you miss a meeting.

In the platform call last week, it was decided to push Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12 to January 27. Hopefully, this will not affect the release of Jakarta EE 12 in Q2, 2026. It also allows for a little more time to get the replacement for OSSRH staging in place.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and ten of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The conference year is getting closer to the end. Last week, I was in Ottawa for JakartaOne Livestream 2025 and next week I will go to Paris to speak at the Paris JUG as well as attend Open Source Experience while I am there. These will be the last events for me in 2025, but as you can see on my list of events, I have quite a few lined up for the beginning of 2026. I update the list continuously, so make sure to check it out if you want to meet up at an event or possibly schedule me for your JUG or conference.

One of the talks at this year’s JakartaOne Livestream that caught my attention was about Eclipse Tradista by Olivier Asuncion. Eclipse Tradista is a risk management solution for the financial sector built with Jakarta EE. It is an excellent example of the benefits of Jakarta EE for applications build with a modular architecture.

The Jakarta EE Platform project didn’t meet last week due to JakartaOne Livestream, so I don’t have much to report on regarding Jakarta EE 12. Make sure to join the last two platform calls of the year on December 9 and 16. See details in the Jakarta EE Specifications calendar.