Welcome to issue number two hundred and five of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Right now, I’m on my way to Canada for JakartaOne Livestream 2023. In addition, I will also speak at the Ottawa Java User Group and the Toronto Java User Group. It’s kind of a small Canadian tour to end the year.

Check out the events, and sign up if you are in the area here:
– December 5 – JakartaOne Livestream
– December 6 – Ottawa JUG
– December 7 – Toronto JUG

The theme for this year’s JakartaOne Livestream is Gingerbread Cookies. Check out this video to get inspired and create your own Jakarta EE branded contribution. Take a picture and tag it with #JakartaOne or #JakartaEE or some other hashtag you believe we will find. As usual, there will be a chance to win great prizes!

Welcome to issue number two hundred and four of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Last week I spoke at Javaforum Malmö and JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023. It was amazing to see so many people showing up at Javaforum Malmö (the Malmö Java User Group) as it was our first event in two years. Hopefully, it won’t be two years until the next one…

We are fast approaching the Milestone 1 release of Jakarta EE 11. So far, the following specifications have released a Milestone 1 (M1) to Maven Central:

– Jakarta Annotations 3.0.0-M1
– Jakarta Data 1.0.0-M1
– Jakarta Expression Language 6.0.0-M1
– Jakarta Pages 4.0.0-M1
– Jakarta Persistence 3.2.0-M1
– Jakarta Servlet 6.1.0-M1
– Jakarta WebSocket 2.2.0-M1

The rest of the specifications are expected to release a milestone by Tuesday, November 28 so we have time to assemble milestone releases of the Jakarta EE 11 Platform, Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile, and Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile in time for JakartaOne Livestream on December 5.

Speaking of JakartaOne Livestream. There is only a week left, so register today and mark it in your calendar NOW. And while you’re at it, bring out your best baking skills and create the best Jakarta EE-themed gingerbread cookie. There will be great prizes!

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

While I am in Canada In December I will visit the Java User Groups in Ottawa and Toronto. Check out the events here:
– December 6 – Ottawa JUG
– December 7 – Toronto JUG

Before that, I will be speaking at the Java User Group in Malmö on November 22. Check out the information about the event, and while you’re at it register. I hope to see as many as possible of you there. Make sure to support your local Java User Group!

I mentioned last week (Hasthag Jakarta EE #202) that there is a restructuring of Jakarta CDI going on. It looks like the ballot in the Jakarta EE Specification Committee for approving this restructuring will not pass. The reason for this is the discussion going on in the Jakarta EE Platform project about how to handle these integrations between specifications.

Information about the processes and the schedule for Jakarta EE 11 can be found on the Jakarta EE 11 page on the Jakarta EE Platform project website.

JakartaOne Livestream 2023 is coming up in a couple of weeks. Check out the amazing speaker lineup, and register today! The schedule with times will be published on Monday, so you can plan your day.

Those of you who have attended the previous editions of JakartaOne Livestream know that we always have a theme of something edible, and a contest to create your version of it. Check out this video to see what the theme of JakartaOne Livestream 2023 will be.

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

The discussions around a CDI-centric approach for Jakarta EE 11 continue in the Jakarta EE Platform project. One of the outcomes of this is a restructuring of the Jakarta CDI Project where a CDI EE integration specification will be split out. The vote for formal approval of this will happen in the Jakarta EE Specification Committee shortly.

It was a busy week for me with three talks at two conferences in two days. Or three days, if you count the first day of Øredev which I was just attending with no talks scheduled for me. Check out my write-ups from these conferences here:

• J-FALL 2023
• Øredev 2023

The next big show coming up is JakartaOne Livestream 2023. The program has been selected, and the speakers announced. We are currently working out the last details of the schedule. Since we have speakers from all around the world, we want to make sure that this speaking slot fits with their time zone.

Mark the event in your calendar by registering now!

Welcome to issue number two hundred and one of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The upcoming week will be busy with three talks at two conferences. I will attend Øredev 2023 here in Malmö on Wednesday before heading to Ede to speak at J-Fall on Thursday. The talk is titled Prepare for Jakarta EE 11 and will provide an update on what to expect from that release.

On Friday, I will be back at Øredev where I have two talks. The first one is the talk where I show how to handle the javax.* to jakarta.* namespace change when migrating from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3. The second talk is titled How to Be a Responsible Open Source Citizen which will give some pointers to how to navigate the different open source projects and communities, and hopefully inspire new open source contributors.

The JakartaOne Livestream speaker lineup has been published on the JakartaOne 2023 website. The schedule is being prepared and will be available shortly. We are also working on preparing the content for the 15-minute Studio Jakarta EE breaks between the sessions.

Those of you who have followed us throughout the years know that we always have a theme contest of some edible sort. Previous editions have featured cupcakes, cakes, pizzas, and cheese. I am not going to reveal this year’s theme, other than hint about it being sweet and delicious…stay tuned for updates!

Welcome to issue number two hundred of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Wow! 200 posts!

The Milestone 1 release of Jakarta EE 11 is approaching. Some of the component specifications have started to produce their M1 releases. Two of them are Jakarta Annotations 3.0 and Jakarta Data 1.0. Check them out in the Jakarta Staging Repository and/or on Maven Central.

We have added the CycloneDX Maven Plugin to the parent POM for all Jakarta EE and EE4J projects. This will ensure that, from now on, all projects generate an SBOM (Software Bill of Material) as a part of their build.

<parent>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.ee4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>project</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.9</version>
    <relativePath/>
</parent>

JakartaOne Livestream 2023 will happen on December 5 this year. The talks have been selected and will be published on the website shortly. Register NOW to make sure you have it in your calendar!

The North America JUG Tour in September was a great success! I am happy to announce that I will be doing a Canada Mini JUG Tour in December where I will visit Ottawa JUG and Toronto JUG. Check out the schedule here:
– December 6, 2024 – Ottawa JUG
– December 7, 2024 – Toronto JUG (event soon to be announced)

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

It was quite a puzzle to fit in four conferences in four countries on three different continents within three weeks. But luckily, all flights were on schedule and the entire journey went without any mishap at all. Even short connections at Charles de Gaulle and Casablanca Mohammed V airports worked as clockwork.

CPH ✈️ BRU ✈️ CPH
CPH ✈️ CDG ✈️ YUL ✈️ YHZ
YHZ ✈️ YUL ✈️ CDG ✈️ CMN ✈️ AGA
AGA ✈️ CMN ✈️ CDG
CDG ✈️ FRA ✈️ STR
STR ✈️ CPH

I have written a blog post for each of the conferences. For EclipseCon, I wrote a short recap each of the days. You can check them out here:

Devoxx Belgium 2023
Community Over Code 2023
Devoxx Morocco 2023
EclipseCon 2023

All these links and more are also available on my Jakarta EE Developer Advocate page.

The work with Jakarta EE 11 continues. Check out the minutes from the weekly Jakarta EE Platform calls to stay up-to-date. Or, if you can fit it into your calendar, consider joining the calls to get the information first-hand. The call is happening on Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Information on how to join can be found in the Jakarta EE Specifications Calendar.

One of the outcomes of EclipseCon is to start the work of producing SBOMs for the projects involved in Jakarta EE 11. Take a look at the pull request for a proposed way of doing it in parent pom.xml for all EE4J projects. More about this later.

At Devoxx Belgium, Oracle announced the Oracle Java Platform Extension for VS Code. There are multiple extensions for Java available for VS Code, so what’s the deal with this one? In my opinion, the cool thing about Oracle’s extension is that it is based on the language server in Apache NetBeans. Check out the announcement from Georges Saab on Inside Java.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

A busy week with Community Over Code and Devoxx Morocco. I am currently in Paris on my way to Ludwigsburg for EclipseCon 2023, which will be the final stop on this three-week conference tour in October.

Between the sessions, the hallway track (and the occasional pool track), the receptions, and travels, there is also the ongoing work with Jakarta EE 11. The Platform calls are held as usual on Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m. ET. Join these calls to join the discussion!

JakartaOne Livestream 2023 is coming up on December 5, 2023. We have a great show planned around the celebration of the 5-year anniversary of Jakarta EE. Register now to block the date in your calendars!

If you are at EclipseCon this week, join us Wednesday morning for a refreshing start to the conference day. Gesine will guide us on a 3K, 5K, or 8K Morning Run around Ludwigsburg.

Join us in the Nestor Hotel Lobby on Wednesday, October 18 at 06:30.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

It can be hard to track which day it is when traveling from conference to conference across time zones, so a fixed point like the weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE comes in handy occasionally. I am currently in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I am speaking at Community Over Code after coming directly from Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp.

While Community Over Code is the name of The Apache Software Foundation‘s flagship event, Eclipse Foundation also has the community in its DNA. Check out the new It’s in Our Code video.

More community. Community Day for Java Developers is coming up. If you haven’t registered yet, do so now. It’s only €40 for a full day of great content from amazing speakers. Not to mention the hallway track!

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The details for a Milestone 1 release (M1) of Jakarta EE 11 were nailed down in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. After discussing who the target audience of an M1 is, we concluded that this release is primarily for the Platform Project itself and the vendors implementing Jakarta EE. This doesn’t prevent others from checking it out, but it helps define the scope of the milestone.

Jakarta EE consists of multiple component specifications in addition to the Platform itself. All the specifications that are updated for Jakarta EE 11 are required to participate in M1 by producing the following artifacts:
– Specification Document
– API JAR in Maven Central
– JavaDoc
– XML Schemas (if the specification defines these)

An implementation of the specification and a Test Compatible Kit (TCK) are optional for M1 but will be required for the next milestone release.

The next three weeks will be filled by four conferences back-to-back. First out is Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp. Then I will go across the ocean to Halifax for Community Over Code and back again to Devoxx Morocco in Agadir before ending the trip in Ludwigsburg and EclipseCon. I hope to see as many as possible of you there. Remember that the hallway track is the most important one to attend!

I will be bringing my running gear to each of these conferences, so keep an eye out for messages and posts tagged with #runWithJakartaEE if you would like to join. I’ll bring a limited amount of Jakarta EE running shirts if that is your motivation to join. At EclipseCon, I will let Gesine guide us on a 3K, 5K, or 8K Morning Run around Ludwigsburg. Join us in the Nestor Hotel Lobby on Wednesday, October 18 at 06:30.

Talking about EclipseCon, I hope you are aware of the Community Day for Java Developers on October 16. You can still register for only €40 which includes lunch and refreshments. Not a bad deal if you ask me…

On the topic of registering, I encourage you to register for JakartaOne Livestream 2023 which will happen on December 5, 2023. We have a great show planned around the celebration of the 5-year anniversary of Jakarta EE.

There is a lot going on in the Open Source Community these days. One of the more disrupting things is the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) by the European Union (EU). 12 organizations, including Eclipse Foundation, have written an Open Letter addressed to policymakers proposing a solution for OSS projects developed under the governance of foundations like the Eclipse Foundation.

Feel free to share this Open Letter for example using the hashtag #ModifyTheCRA.