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

I hope you’re all enjoying some weeks off work. I certainly am! It’s been a while since I had this much time at home. In fact, I have two months of not traveling for work at all.

Since Jakarta EE hasn’t had much going on these weeks, this post is pretty short. Hopefully, you are all too busy doing nothing to even notice it.

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

I hope most of you are having some time off work now, and most likely have better things to do than reading my ramblings on a Sunday at the end of December.

We did release Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 in 2024, so I guess we can celebrate that we partly met the goal of making Jakarta EE 11 available this year. The final release of the Platform and Web Profile specifications will have to wait until 2025 to be published. On the bright side, all the individual component specifications have been available since before summer. They were actually all released as early as in May.

Even if Jakarta EE 11 is not fully out of the door yet, we have stared the planning toward Jakarta EE 12. Join the Jakarta EE Platform calls (Tuesdays at 11:00 AM EST) to join the dicussons.

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

The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile concluded successfully this week and the artifactI is now available in Maven Central.

<dependency>
    <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
    <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-core-api</artifactId>
    <version>11.0.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope
</dependency>

This may seem like a small thing, but it is actually a major milestone for the Jakarta EE Platform Project. It is the first time we have released on of the profiles independently. This is something we probably will see more often going forward. The Jakarta EE 11 Platform and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile will most likely not be released this year, as we were hoping. The Jakarta EE TCK project is now focusing on finishing up the refactoring of the tests for Jakarta EE Web Profile first before the Jakarta EE Platform. This will potentially enable Web Profile to be released independently prior to the Platform as well.

I had a short trip to Warsaw for Ya!vaConf last week. This was my last conference of the year. I will publish a writeup that summarizes the conference year of 2024 shortly. While waiting for that, you can check out the list on my Jakarta EE Developer Advocate page. You will also find the list of the confirmed upcoming events in 2025.

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

The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile is complete! This means that the specification is ratified and can be released. This is a milestone on several levels. First, we released (at least part of) Jakarta EE 11 in 2024. Second, we released the Core Profile specification independently of the Platform and Web Profile specifications. This is something we have wanted to do for a while and is a verification that we have been able to untangle the dependencies enough to make it possible.

There is still a little hope that the ballots for the Jakarta EE 11 Platform and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile specifications will be started before the end of the year.

Last week, we hosted the sixth edition of JakartaOne Livestream. My short blog post about it includes the teaser for this year’s keynote video. We had great fun creating the video as you can see from the ending of it here. You can see the full version on the Jakarta EE channel on YouTube shortly.

My last speaker appearance for the year will be at Ya!vaConf in Warsaw next week. You can register with a 20% discount using the code YAVA24SP20. This will be my first time speaking at this conference. I look forward to seeing you there!

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

My last conference of November was Porto Tech Hub 2024. It has been a busy couple of months, and it isn’t over just yet. There are two conferences on my agenda in December. First up is the sixth annual JakartaOne Livestream. The week after, I will speak at Ya!vaConf 2024 in Warsaw.

Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 is about to be released. The release review is ongoing, and there are enough votes to reach the required super-majority. The ballot will close as soon as all members of the Specification Committee have voted, or at the latest on December 4, 2024.

It does not look that good for the Jakarta EE Platform and Web Profile. The platform project is exploring every option for how to be able to get the TCK in such a state that a compatible implementation could pass it, thus being able to initiate the ballot for release review by the end of the year.

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

This week I visited Czechia on a min-tour of a couple of Czech Java User Groups. I spoke at Prague JUG on Tuesday and Brno JUG on Wednesday. In the upcoming week, I will go to Porto to speak at Porto Tech Hub. This will be my first time speaking at this conference.

Some exciting news! Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 is finally under release review. There are two compatible implementations available as both WildFly and Open Liberty have passed the TCK. The ballot will conclude at the latest on December 4, but it may happen earlier if all members have voted. Hopefully, I will be able to share the same exciting news about the Jakarta EE Platform 11 and Jakarta EE Web Profile 11 soon. The work of modernizing and refactoring the TCK is still going on.

JakartaOne Livestream 2024 on December 3 is getting closer. If you haven’t created your Jakarta EE logo using elements of nature yet, there is still time. Remember, you can win great prizes!

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.

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

I am in the middle of a trip across Europe that started at DevCon in in Bucharest, Rumania and continued to SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. Right now, I am on my way to Milan and Turin to talk at the Java User Groups there. Check out the agenda for JUG Milano on Monday and JUG Torino on Tuesday. Rosaria from Research at Eclipse will join me at both these events and do an opening talk titled Java & Skills: a research activities in research@eclipse.

Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile is just about ready for release review. Everything is ready and all artefacts are staged or published according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP).

The Jakarta EE TCT Project is working heroically to finalize the TCK so we will be able to have the release reviews for Jakarta EE 11 Platform and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile underway in the beginning of December. The goal is to have them completed, or at least ongoing when JakartaOne Livestream is happening on December 3, 2024.

I’ll end here with some pictures from the last couple of days. Until next week…

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

I had six days at home in October. November will give me thirteen days at home, and no long-haul flights planned. But there will still be quite a bit of traveling around Europe. On the first trip, I will start with DevCon in Bucharest, followed by SFSCon in Bolzano, and top it off with JUG Milano and JUG Torino.

The week after the Italian tour, I will speak at the JUGs in Prague and Brno, which will be my first time visiting Czechia. I will then go to Portugal to speak at my final in-person conference of 2024 at Porto Tech Hub.

The Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile API is ready and staged in the Jakarta EE Staging Repository. The specification document is ready, and there are two compatible implementations that have filed CCRs (Compatible Certification Requests). This means that as soon as the i’s have been dotted and t’s have been crossed, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile will start its release review.

For the Jakarta EE 11 Platform and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile specifications, the plan is to have the release sometime around JakartaOne Livestream on December 3.

The elections for the JCP Executive Committee will start on November 5, 2024. If you are a member of the JCP, you are eligible to vote. Please cast your vote between November 5 and November 18, and it would be extremely appreciated if yo chose to cast your vote for Eclipse Foundation. Remember that A Vote for Eclipse Foundation is a Vote for Open Source.

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

Open Community for Java 2024 has just ended, and I am now in Tokyo to speak at JJUG CCC 2024 Fall. This will be my last conference of a pretty busy October which included travels to four different continents: Africa, North America(2), Europe, and Asia.

Some great news! I am happy to announce that IBM has filed a Compatibility Certification Request (CCR) for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile with Open Liberty, 24.0.0.11-beta. This means that we have an implementation that implements the specification and passes the TCK so we will be able to release Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile. Red Hat is also just around the corner with a release of WildFly that passes the Core Profile TCK as well.

JakartaOne Livestream 2024 is coming up on December 3, 2024. Now that Open Community for Java is over, we can focus fully on this. The program and speaker lineup is almost ready and will be published shortly. We can look forward to a full day of amazing content from top-class speakers this year as well.

As always, we have a competition to tickle your creative side in the weeks prior to the conference. This year’s task is to use elements from the nature and create the Jakarta EE logo. In order to enter the competition, you must showcase your creation on social media and make sure you mention the Jakarta EE, or JakartaOne Livestream handles when you do that.