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

The due date for submitting plan reviews for specifications that are candidates for Jakarta EE 11 is May 30. And that date is fast approaching! The pull requests for those that are ready are labeled as Plan Review in the Jakarta EE Specification Committee’s GitHub repository.

A great way to get involved in specification work is to participate in the discussions happening in the GitHub issue trackers for the various specifications. An example is the discussion about HTTP status codes going on in Jakarta REST. Please chime in if you have an opinion or any relevant industry experience that can help guide the decision.

May is a busy month for conferences. Next week, I am going to Sofia to speak at JPrime 2023. It’s been a while since I was at JPrime, so I am very much looking forward to it! Check out the cool speaker promo they created for me.

Relax, I won’t bug you with the link to the course I created for LinkedIn in every Hashtag Jakarta EE, but bear with me for a while. If you are new to Jakarta EE or just want to complete a course for the Jakarta EE skill on LinkedIn, I have just published an overview course of Jakarta EE on LinkedIn Learning. Check it out, and tell me what you think!

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

It is only a little over a week until the plan reviews are due for the component specifications. You can check out the content of the reviews in the pull requests labeled Plan Review in the Jakarta EE Specification Committee Issue Tracker on GitHub.

For an overview of the ingredients that are currently being discussed for inclusion in Jakarta EE 11, check out the issues labeled EE11 in the Jakarta EE Platform Issue Tracker on GitHub. Also, make sure to check out the minutes from the weekly Jakarta EE Platform Project calls.

As I mentioned last week, I have spent this week at home. On Tuesday next week, I am headed to Gdańsk in Poland for Infoshare 2023 where I will present how to migrate from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 focusing on how to handle the various scenarios involving the javax.* to jakarta.* namespace change made in Jakarta EE 9.

If you are new to Jakarta EE, or just want to complete a course for the Jakarta EE skill on LinkedIn, I have just published an overview course of Jakarta EE on LinkedIn Learning. Check it out, and tell me what you think!

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

I am back from my trip to Devoxx UK, and this time I will enjoy 10 days at home before heading off to Gdańsk to speak at Infoshare 2023. I had a talk there in 2021 as well, so it will be my second time speaking at this conference.

The work on producing a release plan for Jakarta EE 11 continues. The call to action for all individual component specifications is to have a plan ready for review by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee by May 30. Find the details in this email from Ed Burns to the Jakarta EE Specification Project Lead mailing list.

Don’t mix business with pleasure, or was it politics with open source? In the case of the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) by the European Union, this may be an exception. Check out the article EU’s Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers in The Register. While you’re at it check out Product Liability Directive: More Bad News for Open Source by Mike Milinkovich to see why you should care about what the politicians in Brussels are cooking up these days.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I am home from an absolutely amazing Devoxx Greece 2023! The 1200 of you that were there know what I am talking about. But don’t despair if you weren’t able to attend this conference. A new opportunity comes up already next week in London. If you haven’t signed up for Devoxx UK 2023 yet, do so with the 25% discount code SEEMESPEAK23.

I will be presenting Modern and Lightweight Cloud Application Development with Jakarta EE 10 on Thursday. On the flight back home from Athens yesterday, I decided to spice up this talk with a demo using Spring Boot 2 and Spring Boot 3 to show how closely connected this technology is with Jakarta EE.

In the monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call this week, we discussed the release planning of Jakarta EE 11. The first milestone in the plan is to gather the plans from all individual component specification projects. This is done according to the JESP in the form of Plan Reviews. We want these plan reviews in by May 30, 2023, so they can be started at the latest on May 31, 2023.

I have finally succumbed to the pressure and decided to add Instagram to my social media channels. Better late than never maybe? Anyway, I have been sparsely on Instagram before, so you may find some old accounts lingering around, but to give this a new fresh start, I created a new profile named ivargrimstad_official. Feel free to follow me and interact with me there. My intention is to post pictures from activities I’m a part of related to Jakarta EE, but as always, I suspect there will be some totally unrelated content as well.

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Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Conference season is upon us. Last week, I visited Bangalore, India to speak at GIDS 2023. This week I am going to Athens, Greece to speak at Devoxx Greece 2023. This is the first time Devoxx takes place in Greece after evolving from Voxxed Days Athens. I am thrilled to be a part of it!

The Platform Project is in the process of collecting issues to get a feel of the scope of the Jakarta EE 11. Check them out, and feel free to add anything you think is missing. The issue list is discussed in the weekly Jakarta EE Platform calls as well as in the Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call.

On that topic, time flies when you’re having fun. It is already time for the next Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call this upcoming week. Make sure to join this call to make your voice heard in the planning for Jakarta EE 11. The call is scheduled for 11:00 AM ET on May 2, 2023. Check the public calendar for details on how to join.

If you haven’t responded to the 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey yet, it is still open and will be open until May 25. There is no need to wait, take a couple of minutes and provide your valuable insights.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I wrote in Hashtag Jakarta EE #172 that presented How To Be a Responsible Open Source Cicizen at the Java Heroes Mini Conference in Singapore last week. Take a look at this amazing drawing by Jérôme Bourgeon that summarizes the talk in one picture!

Related to the topic of this talk is the letter from thirteen open source bodies (Eclipse Foundation included) to the EU asking the European Commission to reconsider parts of the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Check out the blog series by Mike Milinkovich to learn more about this topic.

The Jakarta EE Platform continues its journey toward Jakarta EE 11. The team has now started collecting the issues to get a feel of the scope of the release. Check them out, and feel free to add anything you think is missing. The issue list is discussed in the weekly Jakarta EE Platform calls.

The input that was gathered from the community using the Jakarta EE 11 Discussion document also needs to be converted into GitHub issues. Please help out with this task. Keep in mind that if it isn’t present in the GitHub issue tracker, it will likely not be discussed and has less probability of making it to the release.

Unleash lightweight cloud app development w/ Java & Jakarta EE by @ivar_grimstad at #GIDS #Bengaluru, 25/04! https://t.co/B9meOm4fWX

— #gids (@developersummit) April 15, 2023

I am currently on my way to Great International Developer Summit (GIDS) in Bangalore where I will present Modern and Lightweight Cloud Application Development with Java and Jakarta EE. It is my third time speaking at GIDS in Bangalore, and I look very much forward to this trip!

If you haven’t responded to the 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey yet, it is still open and will be open until May 25. There is no need to wait, take a couple of minutes and provide your valuable insights.

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

I am back from the JCP Executive Committee meeting in Singapore where we also participated in the Java Heroes Mini Conference organized by Singapore JUG. The conference started with a panel of all JCP EC Members, myself included. The panel discussion started with a short presentation by Georges Saab, and was moderated by Heather VanCura. After the panel, there were talks by Simon Ritter, Mala Gupta, and myself.

My talk was titled How to Be a Responsible Open Source Citizen. It is a non-technical talk about how to consume and contribute to open source in a safe way.

As always, when I travel, I try to get a run into my schedule and Singapore was no exception. As always sporting my Jakarta EE running shirt. Even in the heat and humidity in Singapore, it is the best way to recharge. And work, actually. Holly is really spot on with her blog post Why Your Desk is the Worst Place to Work, and Other Life Lessons from a Lazy Developer.

What makes a run such a great place to work is … the absence of work.

Holly Cummins

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

I just came home from Devnexus where I had a great time as you can read about in Devnexus 2023. Next week, I am going to Singapore for the first face-to-face meeting in the Java Community Process Executive Committee since September 2019. As usual, there are several activities planned in addition to the actual meeting. Among those, I will speak at the Java Heroes Conference 2023 organized by the Singapore JUG.

The Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture Call happened this week. We talked about which specifications could be candidates to add to Jakarta EE 11. One of the most likely candidates is Jakarta Data. The plan review for Jakarta Data 1.0 was approved by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee last week, so it looks promising. For this, and other topics related to Jakarta EE 11, please take a look at the issues labeled EE11 in the Jakarta EE Platform Issue Tracker.

If you haven’t responded to the 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey yet, it is still open and will be until May 25. There is no need to wait, take a couple of minutes and provide your valuable insights.

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

The Jakarta EE Platform Project has started organizing the issue tracker for Jakarta EE 11. Issues that are relevant to Jakarta EE 11 are marked with the EE11 label. It is time for the Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call next week. Make sure to join this call to make your voice heard in the planning for Jakarta EE 11.

The call is scheduled for 11:00 AM ET on February 7, 2023. Check the public calendar for details on how to join.

In the upcoming week, I am going to Atlanta for Devnexus 2023. This year, there is an entire track dedicated to Jakarta EE. There will also be an informal Jakarta Meetup directly after the Jug Leaders Summit, which is happening on Tuesday.

The 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey is now open. The survey will be open until May 25, but there is no need to wait. Take a couple of minutes and provide your valuable insights.

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

Java 20 was released on Tuesday this week! As with the previous releases, Java 20 comes with a small set of features. Which is natural given the 6-month release cadence. Virtual Threads (JEP 436) from Project Loom is in 2^nd Preview in Java 20. It is really the time to try it out before it gets elevated from Preview to a regular feature. This is expected to happen in Java 21, which is only 6 months away.

The addition of Virtual Threads in Java 21 is a topic for Jakarta EE 11 as well. Check out the minutes if you’re not able to attend the weekly Jakarta EE Platform Calls on a regular basis to stay on top of what’s being discussed.

Last week, I was at JavaLand. Organizing a conference in an amusement park with free roller coasters and ice cream, in addition to top-class speakers providing amazing content, is a given success. And JavaLand 2023 was no exception. I think all of the 2400 attendees agree with me on that.

Next up is Devnexus in Atlanta. This is another of my favorite conferences, and it has established itself as the largest Java conference in the US. New this year is that we have a dedicated Jakarta EE track. The track will feature talks about, and related to Jakarta EE. We will also make sure to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of Jakarta EE. Please join us in the celebration, and pick up some limited 5-year anniversary swag.