Welcome to the seventy-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The 2021 JVM Ecosystem Report by Snyk was published this week. The focus of the report is on the most important aspects for Today’s JVM developers. The report shows that Java SE 11 is the dominant version of Java in production environments. It is good to see that the industry is moving past Java SE 8. This is also great input to the decision on what Java SE version to use as a baseline for Jakarta EE 10. The report also touches on application frameworks. Jakarta EE (and Java EE) is doing very well with a market share of 12.7% and 24.2% respectively.

The article Java EE and Jakarta EE: What IT leaders should know in The Enterprisers Project highlights how Jakarta EE helps bridge old and new technologies in hybrid cloud environments.

On Tuesday, June 24, I will be presenting Beyond Jakarta EE 9.1 at jOnConf 2021. At the end of the day, I will be participating in a panel with the topic Software Architectures: Enterprise Java.

Eclipse GlassFish 6.2.0 was released this week! This version includes Eclipse Krazo, which means that Jakarta MVC is supported out of the box. A huge milestone for Jakarta MVC!

Welcome to the seventy-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The Jakarta EE Platform project does not rest on its laurels! Vivid discussions are going in the weekly platform calls as well as on the mailing lists. Read the minutes from the platform calls to keep informed in case you are not able to join the calls.

Talking about keeping up-to-date, I will be speaking at J4K this week. My talk, Jakarta EE Core Profile – A Slimmer Jakarta EE, is about the Jakarta EE Core Profile which you may say is very much a work-in-progress. This talk will give you the latest status update as well as pointers to how to contribute and influence the direction of the specification.

I am extremely happy to see that Hibernate ORM 5.5.0 is now certified as a compatible implementation of Jakarta Persistence! They have passed the TCKs for both Jakarta Persistence 2.2 and Jakarta Persistence 3.0 which means that they are aligned with both Jakarta EE8 and Jakarta EE 9 supporting both the jakarta.* namespace as well as javax.*. This is an important milestone. Provides a migration path for all those applications out there using Hibernate ORM for persistence.

The Call for Proposals for EclipseCon 2021 ends on June 15, so there is still time for you to submit your Jakarta EE talk to have a chance of being a speaker!

The planning for JakartaOne LiveStream 2021 has just started. Mark December 7, 2021 in your calendar today. More details and dates for the Call For Paper will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!

Welcome to the seventy-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED! Here’s what you should do now:

Step 1: Update your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
  <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
  <version>9.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Step 2: Migrate to jakarta.* namespace

Follow this migration guide for the namespace migration.

Step 3: Run

Download the Jakarta EE 9.1 Compatible Product of your choice.

Tomorrow is the last day to take the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey! Please take a couple of minutes to help us shape the future direction of Jakarta EE. Now that we have released Jakarta EE 9.1, the focus is on the next release. The work has already started with the establishment of the new Jakarta EE Core Profile and discussions around the release- and versioning strategy going forward. Follow the discussions in the Jakarta EE Platform Weekly call. The survey will provide valuable input to this work.

The early bird deadline for EclipseCon 2021 is coming up! Make sure you submit your talk before June 1, 2021, for a chance to be one of the first five talks selected for the conference.

Timeline:
June 1: Early-Bird Submission Deadline
June 15: Final Submission Deadline
July 1: Notification Sent

Navigate to EclipseCon 2021 Call for Proposals and submit your Jakarta EE talk today!

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

Jakarta EE 9.1 will be released on Tuesday, May 25, 2021! Stay tuned for announcements on this blog, the jakarta.ee website, Jakarta EE on Twitter, and a bunch of other places.

But, we don’t rest there. The work with Jakarta EE 10 is progressing as well. The creation- and plan review for Jakarta EE Core Profile 10 was approved this week by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee. We have also started the issues for defining the scope of Jakarta EE Web Profile 10 and Jakarta EE Platform 10. Plan reviews of these are expected to be initiated shortly.

The project proposal for Jakarta Config is being processed. Since it is a project that will produce a specification under the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP), a creation review by the specification committee is required. This review ballot is ongoing and will end this week. Community members are encouraged to chime in and place their (non-binding) vote.

I am very pleased to announce that Eclipse Krazo, an implementation of Jakarta MVC was integrated into Eclipse GlassFish this week! This is an important milestone for the project.

If you haven’t filled out the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey yet, I hope you will take a couple of minutes required to provide us with valuable input in shaping the direction of Jakarta EE!

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

In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It is great to see that the specifications are moving forward again. The Jakarta EE 9 release with the associated namespace change from javax.* to jakarta.* may very well prove to be the tap on the bottle that got the ketchup flowing.

The Eclipse Cargo Tracker is a fantastic example of an end-to-end Jakarta EE application that showcases core Jakarta EE technologies. Thanks to Scaleforce and Jelastic for providing resources to deploy the demo application to the cloud.

Try out the Cargo Tracker!

If you are interested in contributing to the project, or just look at the code, go to the Cargo Tracker GitHub repository.

A warm welcome to The Apache Software Foundation that joined the Jakarta EE working group as a guest member this week.

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

Let’s look at Jakarta EE 10! By filtering on the EE10 label in our GitHub issue tracker, you will find the list of topics currently under discussion. I would like to highlight a couple of the issues.

Jakarta EE 10 Direction Statement (#352) lists focus areas that we are working on in order to come up with a proper roadmap for the platform. The platform team has been tasked by the Jakarta EE Steering Committee to produce a statement of direction for the steering committee meeting on May 11, 2021. I think we are in pretty good shape, but it will most certainly be refined more in the platform call a couple of hours before the steering committee gathers.

Create a new core profile specification (#353) collects the discussion around creating a new Jakarta EE Core Profile. We have created the plan review record and expect the ballot for creation- and plan reviews to be started pretty soon. Check out the JESP Guide for information about what these review steps actually means.

Speaking about plan reviews, we have a lot of them going on right now. Just check out the list of pull requests for plans. The Jakarta EE 10 Plan Reviews project board shows the current status of the reviews as they flow through our process.

In addition to this, a project proposal for Jakarta Config is being drafted. I expect it to be made public for community review within short.

If you haven’t filled out the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey yet, I hope you will take a couple of minutes required to provide us with valuable input in shaping the direction of Jakarta EE!

Welcome to the seventieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The Jakarta EE 9.1 release is coming up shortly. The release review ballot for ratification of the specification will start this week. A special detail regarding this release is that there will be at least three, possibly four, compatible implementations used for ratification. Eclipse GlassFish, OpenLiberty, and WildFly have submitted their Compatibility Certification Requests already. We hope that Apache TomeEE will make it as well!

More compatible products will follow shortly after the release.

The plan reviews for individual specifications are ongoing. You can follow their progress by checking out the pull requests labeled plan review. As they are approved, they will pop up on their respective page under Jakarta EE Specifications.

I want to remind you about the Jakarta EE Specifications Calendar, where the specification projects are encouraged to publish there calls in order to allow more people to join the discussions.

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

The Compatibility Certification Requests (#334 and #335) for Eclipse GlassFish 6.1.RC1 has been filed both for Jakarta EE Platform 9.1 as well as Jakarta EE Web Profile 9.1.

These CCRs will be used in the ratification of the final Jakarta EE 9.1 specification. This time, we are hoping for additional compatible implementations to be a part of the material reviewed by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee. Since we plan to initiate the release review ballot on April 30, it is time to start preparing the Compatibility Certification Requests by following these steps outlined by the Jakarta EE TCK project lead Scott Marlow.

The 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey is still running. If you haven’t answered it yet, I encourage you to take this opportunity to provide input to the direction of Jakarta EE. It only takes a couple of minutes to answer.

Take the 2021Jakarta EE Developer Survey now!

The CFP for EclipseCon 2021 is open. Don’t hesitate, submit your Jakarta EE talk today! If you are new to speaking, or unsure what to talk about, ask someone in the community to team up with you and do a joint talk!