Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The proposal for the Jakarta CRaC specification is out for community review. Next week, the Jakarta EE Specification Committee will kick off the creation review according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process. The program for JakartaOne Livesteam 2026 has been selected and the speakers notified. It will be published as soon as the sehceduling is done.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was touring the US East Coast with Gerrit from Azul. We visited Philly JUG, Garden State JUG, and New Yo…

The second stop on the 2026 US JUG Tour was Garden State JUG. We did the same talks as we did at Philly JUG the day before, but with slight variations since the audience at this JUG is a little dif…

This Monday, I visited the Philly JUG together with Gerrit from Azul. In his talk From Prompt to Code, he talked about how to create an application from scratch using AI. He pointed coding agents, …

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference session has started. Over the past two weeks, I attended JavaZone and IntelliJ IDEA Conf. Next week, I am …

IntelliJ IDEA Conf is a virtual conference where the speakers and hosts are gathered in the same location. The 2026 edition was supposed to be in Cyprus in March, but due to the World situation, it…

This was my first JavaZone as an exhibitor. I didn't have a talk this year, so I spent the time on the exhibition floor at the Jakarta EE booth with Shabnam and Tanja. Arjan from OmniFish was also there, helping out with the booth. We had a steady stream of attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and organizers stopping by, which resulted in lots of good conversations about anything related to tech and/or…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE ecosystem is growing. Last week, Vidocq filed a Compatibility Certification Request for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile. This is excellent news! We welcome all new implementations of Jakarta EE with open arms. The release review of Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 5.0…

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Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I will be going to Oslo and JavaZone 2026. I will be there with Tanja and Shabnam to staff the Jakarta EE booth. It is the first time we are sponsoring this event, so it will be a new experience seeing it from this side after being a speaker there multiple times in the past.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In my post from JakartaOne Dominican Republic 2026, I highlighted the Coffee Builder plugin created by Diego Silva Limaco. It is an awesome project to make the everyday life of a Jakarta EE developer easier. Guess what? Great news! Diego just created a project proposal for the Eclipse Coffee Builder for Jakarta EE…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! My next conference will be JavaZone in Lillestrøm, right north of Oslo. Jakarta EE is sponsoring, so you will find me in our booth on the exhibition floor. I would love to chat with you, so please come by between sessions. The specifications that are targeting Jakarta EE 12…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I attended JCrete 2026. You can read all about it in my post from the event. My next event will be JavaZone in the beginning of September, where Jakarta EE will be present on the exhibition floor with a booth. The first specification targeting…

JCrete 2026 was just as good as the previous ones that I have attended, and that has been quite a few. I think my first time was in 2016 or maybe in 2015, but I am not entirely sure. It is a yearly tradition for me now to go to JCrete during summer. For those that don't know, JCrete is an…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This will be a rather short post since it is in the time of the year most people are on vacation or doing something else than reading blogs. This week, I have attended JCrete with lots of regulars and also made friends among the new faces. I will write a more detailed writeup from JCrete later.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have been home a week since JConf Dominicana 2026, and today I am setting course for Crete to be a part of JCrete 2026. This unconference in the Mediterranean in the middle of summer has become a tradition for me since I first attended more than ten years ago.

This was my third time speaking at JConf Dominicana, so I am practically a regular by now. The community spirit is so present at this conference. As I wrote last year, I think it is the only conference I have been to where the attendees immediately put on the conference T-shirt they get at registration. Everybody walking around in matching shirts strengthens the feeling of belonging to the community.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am currently at JConf Dominicana 2026. I will post a separate post about the conference shortly. But I will mention the session I am attending right now, which is a presentation about floci by Hector Ventura. In short, floci is a drop-in replacement for LocalStack that lets you emulate any cloud environment locally.

The official Java documentary, Write Once Run Forever, was released to the public today! I’m not interviewed in the film, but there’s a still photo of me at 1:06:58. There’s also …

Yesterday I attended JakartaOne Dominican Republic.The event gathered a full room of around 40 attendees on a Thursday evening. This was the first JakartaOne in the Caribbean, but is certainly won't be the last. The Java community all over the LATAM region is very active and vibrant, and the JakartaOne In-person event format fits very well. After Eudris Cabrera…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-first of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Even if July traditionally is a rather slow month regarding conferences, I have a couple coming up next week. On Th…

Last week, I had the pleasure of being part of the Code the Continuum Hackathon which took place at the University of Gagliari on Sardinia, Italy. The location itself is worth the visit, so I definitely understand the choice of venue. The two-day hackathon was held at the university campus with approximately 50 attendees registered. I had created a challenge where the participants would create a Jakarta EE application that integrated with an LLM to produce an…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fortieth of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Code the Continuum hackathon was a very inspiring event with lots of excellent solutions using Jakarta EE, AI among other things. I will shortly publish a blog post about the event. It is incredible what a team of students can come up with and produce during a couple of days of collaboration.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-ninth of Hashtag Jakarta EE! While the heatwave is hanging over Western Europe, I am heading south for the Code the Continuum Hackathon in Gagliari where I will be responsible for the Jakarta EE related challenge. There are around 50 registered participants, where the majority are students at the University of Gagliari. The participants opting for the Jakarta EE challenge will implement…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-eighth of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are entering the summer months on the Northern Hemisphere, and with that the activity generally gets a little …

Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-seventh of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, we had our annual all hands gathering at Eclipse Foundation. Almost all the staff came together for a week of meetings, presentations, and team building in Estérel outside Montreal in Canada. Eclipse Foundation is a remote organisation, so this is the one time of the year when we get to meet and hang out with our colleagues.