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2020 JCP EC Elections

The 2020 elections for the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) have started. The ballot will be open for voting between November 3 and 16.

The Eclipse Foundation has been participating in the JCP Executive Committee since 2007 with the primary goal to represent the interests of the open-source community, and for independent implementations of Java specifications

I am happy to be announced as the candidate for the primary representative of the Eclipse Foundation in this election. I have previously served two periods as an individual holding an associate seat, as well as being the alternate for Eclipse Foundation the last year.

VOTE for the Open Source Community, VOTE for Eclipse Foundation!

Both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile are established as working groups within the Eclipse Foundation. Being a part of the JCP EC secures the important linkage between Java™ SE and the enterprise Java™ technologies. The move of AdoptOpenJDK to Eclipse Foundation and the establishment of the Adoptium working group makes Eclipse Foundation the biggest distributor of Java™ runtimes after Oracle.

Tune in to the “Meet the JCP EC Candidates” conference call on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 10 AM PDT. Check the JCP elections website and follow @jcp_org on Twitter for announcements of how to join the call.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #43

Welcome to the forty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Time for this week’s Jakarta EE 9 status. We now have twenty specifications approved and nine ballots ongoing. The remaining six are the Platform Specification and five specifications that depends on it.

The Platform Specification is the one with most work remaining, but I am confident that we will be able to finish it and get it on ballot before November 6 in order to be able to release the entire thing on November 20.

This week, we released Jakarta MVC 1.1. The compatible implementation used to verify the specification is Eclipse Krazo 1.1.0. With this release, Krazo graduated from incubation to be a mature Eclipse project! This is the first of the EE4J projects being graduated, with the exception of EclipseLink which has been around for a while.

The Jakarta EE Virtual Tour continues to grow and has expanded into 2021. Do contact us if you want your JUG/Meetup to be added to this list!

Hashtag Jakarta EE #42

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I have a confession to make. As one of the few, or maybe the only one in our industry, I have never read the book or seen the movie…

Anyway, 42 is the answer and this is issue number 42 of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The status for Jakarta EE 9 this week is that fifteen specifications have passed the approval ballot, six are still in ballots that will close within the next two weeks. Eleven specifications are close to being ready for ballot. Many of these are depending on the Platform specification, so we will likely see specifications up for ballots like ketchup this week.

The one that is causing a little concern is the Jakarta Server Pages specification. If you’re involved in this specification, please help sort out the outstanding issues.

The schedule for the Jakarta EE Virtual Tour is shaping up. We are adding stops to the tour every day AND we are continuing the tour in 2021, so do contact us if you want us to present at YOUR JUG or Meetup.

The upcoming week is the week of EclipseCon 2020. The logo kind of shouts “ECLIPSE 2020 CON” to me, but be not mistaken, it is time for EclipseCon 2020 Virtual Event! This year’s edition is virtual and there are more than 2000 registered attendees. Make sure you reserve your spot for the sessions you would like to attend by building your schedule in the conference app.

And, you may relax, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is now downloaded to my Kindle, so there is still hope for me:)

Hashtag Jakarta EE #41

Welcome to the forty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The Jakarta EE 9 status pie for this week shows that we still have twelve ratified specifications. This is as expected since no ballots were scheduled to conclude this week. Of the nine ongoing ballots, four will close this week.

There are eleven specifications in the pipeline pretty close to being ready for ballot. Only three need a little more work. Two of these are the platform specifications which are expected to be the last up for a vote since they aggregate and sum up all the other specifications.

The Jakarta EE Virtual Tour is shaping up, but we still have room for more stops. We will also extend this tour to continue into 2021 to be able to meet as many as possible. So, don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to host us in your JUG or Meetup.

The Call-for-Paper for JakartaOne Livestream 2020 on December 8 has closed, and the program committee has started the job of finalizing the schedule.

The ballot for Jakarta MVC 1.1 will conclude on October 21. The status so far is that there are already enough votes for this specification to be ratified. In parallel, we have started the work on Jakarta MVC 2.0. This release will be featuring the new jakarta.mvc.* namespace.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #40

Welcome to the fortieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

This week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status shows some progress!

We now have twelve specifications approved and four ballots that started last week. There are thirteen that are close to being ready for ballots and only six that need a little more work. We’re getting there! Mark November 20 in your calendar! Read this status update from Kevin Sutter for more details.

This Jakarta EE Survey by Omnifaces covers a lot of relevant topics for Jakarta EE releases following Jakarta EE 9. Please do take some time and fill out the survey. Surveys like this provide extremely valuable input for the work on upcoming releases.

Tanja and I are going on a virtual tour talking about Jakarta EE. The first stop on the tour was India and we are currently planning stops in Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden and USA. Please reach out to us if you want us to present at your JUG/meetup.

Celebrating One Year as Jakarta EE Developer Advocate

Today is exactly one year since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation.

It started out as expected, with a lot of speaking engagement at developer conferences around the World as well as an increased online presence and activity in the community.

Then Covid-19 hit us and everything went virtual. After a period of panic, I think we as a community have adjusted pretty well. I guess that the industry we are in was pretty well equipped to go virtual, thus the community can continue being vibrant and active. But I do miss being on the road and meeting you all out there! Virtual conferences and meetups are all good, but cannot replace the real deal.

As a full-time developer advocate, there is more time for blogging, so I have been able to produce more blog posts this year than ever before. One thing I am especially proud of is the Hashtag Jakarta EE blog series that I started. I hadn’t expected that I would be able to keep up with a weekly cadence, but it has turned out to be enough content being produced out there to keep that going. Please ping me if you want your pet project to be mentioned in one of the upcoming posts.

I also started the Studio Jakarta EE YouTube channel. This channel is a complement to the official Jakarta EE channel. The idea behind Studio Jakarta EE is to have a place for more informal content, such as interviews, chats, small tech tips, and such.

This was just a small peek into what I have been up to. There is plenty of more, but I will stop here to keep this blog post from being too long. In summary, it has been an amazing year, and I look forward to the years to come!

Jakarta EE Talks at EclipseCon 2020

You don’t want to miss these Jakarta EE talks at EclipseCon 2020. You may also want to check out the talks in the Cloud Native Java category. Visit the event site for full information about the talks and the speakers.

This year’s EclipseCon is a free, virtual event.

Please register now to reserve your spot!

Follow @EclipseCon on Twitter
Use #EclipseCon on social media

Hashtag Jakarta EE #39

Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Here is this week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status.

Since there were no ballots that closed this week, there are still ten approved and two ballots ongoing. These two will end on Tuesday. Eight specifications are almost ready for their ballot, so that’s an increase since last week.

Nine specifications need some more work before they are ready, and there is only one specification that hasn’t created a Pull Request yet:

Jakarta Server Pages

The call-for-paper for JakartaOne LiveStream ends on Wednesday, October 1st. If you haven’t submitted yet, now is the time!

Another event coming up with a lot of Jakarta EE content is EclipseCon 2020. Do register now to reserve your place!

This week, we staged the MVC 1.1.0 API in preparation for our first release as a Jakarta EE specification. The next steps are to stage the TCK and file a certification request for Eclipse Krazo. More to come.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #38

Welcome to the thirty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Time for this week’s cake, or pie (chart) to be specific…
The current status for Jakarta EE 9 is that ten specifications have been approved, two ballots are ongoing and five are almost ready for ballot.

The only specifications that have not created a Pull Request yet are:

Jakarta Server Pages
Jakarta Standard Tag Library
Jakarta Server Faces

The list is getting shorter! If you are involved in any of these, please do go forward with creating the pull requests. They can be created as draft PRs and be updated along the way up to being ready for ballot. There is absolutely no reason to wait until everything is ready!

Java 15 is available. You can download it wherever you usually get your JDK, for example at AdoptOpenJDK. Check out this blog and video by Markus Karg where he talks about all the changes in the Java language since Java 7.

The new date for JakartaOne LiveStream is December 8, 2020! The Call-for-paper will close on October 1st, so make sure you submit your talk.

It is a pleasure to welcome MicroProfile as a Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation! It has been a long process, but we are finally getting there. Check out the draft charter. It is still in proposal state, but expect more news to come about this shortly.

Still hungry? Check out How To Bring Your Java Microservices To The Cloud by Jadon Ortlepp. There will be pizza…