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

Last week, I was on a small Italian JUG Tour, visiting the Java User Groups in Milan and Turin. You can read about the events in my blog posts about JUG Milano and JUG Torino. Next week, I will be touring Czecia with visits to Praque JUG and Brno JUG.

So, over to Jakarta EE 11. As I have mentioned a couple of times already, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile will be the first of the Platform- and Profile-specifications to reach the release review stage. That will most likely happen this week. All artifacts are ready and two compatible implementations have passed the TCK. Check out the compatibility requests and test results for WildFly and Open Liberty.

The annual JakartaOne Livestream is coming up on December 3, 2024. As usual, this will be a full day (12 hours, actually) packed with talks, interviews, discussions, and other fun stuff. Check out the program and register on the JakartaOne Livestream 2024 website.

We always have a kind of contest or challenge leading up to JakartaOne Livestream. The theme this year is Jakarta EE In Nature, and we would like to receive lots of pictures or videos where the community creates the Jakarta EE logo in nature or with elements from nature.

For inspiration, check out the production team going all in on the Gingerbread theme.