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

I wanted to take the opportunity to show you that I don’t always sit by my desk writing blog posts and attending virtual events. I do other stuff as well! At the end of this week, we got some days of sub-zero temperatures here in Sweden. That means that the lakes freeze and skating season is on for a couple of days until the warmer weather is back again.

Don’t worry, it’s not open water behind me… It’s just how the water freezes occasionally. But it looks pretty cool, though.

Talking about cool stuff, make sure to revisit the Studio Jakarta EE LIVE session I had with Emily this week. In the video, we talk about the new MicroProfile 4.0 release. Emily gives a thorough walk-through of all the changes as well as showing it in practice.

Next weekend is FOSDEM weekend! I have one Jakarta EE talk in the Foojay track. Join me on Saturday at 14:40 CET. The talk is recorded, but I will be online during the talk and will also be available for 10 minutes Q&A after the playback of the talk.

The Eclipse Foundation has a virtual stand where all working groups are presented. Stop by the stand for a chat with us there and for a chance to win a hoodie!

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

We are two weeks into the new year already, and I want to remind the specification teams that about the deadline for submitting a plan review in order to be a candidate for inclusion in the Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The deadline is January 31 as the timeline below shows.

The Jakarta EE Platform team are having weekly calls where various topics related to the platform specification are discussed. Please, do join this call if you are interested in participating in shaping the platform. Details for how to join can be found in the Jakarta EE Platform Calendar.

Barcelona JUG is the next stop on our Jakarta EE Virtual Tour. Join here! We really enjoy giving these talks, so please reach out if you are interested in hosting us at your JUG or MeetUp.

The first Jakarta EE Update Call of 2021 will happen on January 21! The topics we will cover in this call are the program plan and budget, the release plan for Jakarta EE 9.1 as well as upcoming events, programs and marketing campaigns. And, of course, there will be an opportunity to get your questions asked and answered.

Visit the Community Calendar to find the details about how to join the call.

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

The main goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to support the Java SE 11 runtime. The APIs will still be compiled to Java SE 8 level in order to be usable to both Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. That means that there will not be need for any new releases for the individual specifications unless the specification teams have changes they wish to push forward. The absolute deadline for such plans to be put forward is January 31, 2021. See the timeline below.

Note that, it is up to the platform project to decide if any new versions should be included in the Jakarta EE 9.1 release even if a plan review is submitted within this deadline.

The Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection project continues with weekly calls with the goal to define a CDI Lite specification. Follow the discussions on the CDI Developer Discussions mailing list.

The Jakarta EE Virtual Tour continues in 2021. The ones we have planned so far are Silesia JUG (Jan 13), JUG Darmstadt (Jan 13), Barcelona JUG (Jan 20), and Chicago JUG (Feb 25). Please reach out if you are interested in hosting us at your JUG or MeetUp.

The jChampions Conference is starting next week. I will be a moderator for at least one of the sessions. Check out the schedule.

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

Happy New Year!

It’s 2021 and a year since I wrote the very first Hashtag Jakarta EE. I find it useful for myself to write these short recaps of what’s going on in the community, and I hope you enjoy them as well!

On the very last day of 2020, Eclipse GlassFish 6 was released! Go to glassfish.org/download to check it out. GlassFish 6 meets the compatibility requirements of Jakarta EE 9. Downloads are available for both the Platform and the Web Profile.

If you want to have a look at the other fishes in the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile space, take a look at A day of fishing with Jakarta EE and MicroProfile by Edwin Derks. In this blog post, Edwin describes the differences and similarities between GlassFish, Payara, and Piranha.

The Jakarta EE Virtual Tour continues in 2021. The ones we have planned so far are Silesia JUG (Jan 13), JUG Darmstadt (Jan 13), Barcelona JUG (Jan 20), and Chicago JUG (Feb 25). Please reach out if you are interested in hosting us at your JUG or MeetUp.

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

As we are ramping down to close 2020 and recharge for 2021, there are still things going on in the community. First, I would like to point you to the Studio Jakarta EE LIVE I had with Dalia this week where we talked about tooling for Jakarta EE.

Stay tuned for more Studio Jakarta EE LIVE coming up next year.

We released Jakarta MVC 2.0 yesterday! This was the second release since moving to Eclipse Foundation and Jakarta EE. With this release, we have moved to the jakarta.* namespace. Eclipse Krazo, the compatible implementation runs on both GlassFish and WildFly. OpenLiberty is on its way.

Jakarta MVC 2.0 will be featured in a session called “OpenDDR and Jakarta MVC” that I am co-speaking with Werner Keil at Java2Days on December 22nd.

On December 29th, I am participating in a Tech Summary Panel organized by the Barcelona JUG. In this event, we will summarize 2020 and look ahead towards 2021. It has an amazing lineup of speakers, and I am honored to be among them. You don’t want to miss this!

Welcome to the fiftieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Wow, fifty hashtags so far! Tuesday was a big day for the Jakarta EE community. That was the day of JakartaOne Livestream 2020. With this event, we officially announced Jakarta EE 9, even though it has been available in Maven Central since November 20th.

If you didn’t have the opportunity to attend or want to see some of the talks again, they are all available on the Jakarta EE YouTube channel. Please visit jakarta.ee to find out more about Jakarta EE, and specifically the specifications section for all resources regarding the Jakarta EE specification.

I am also happy to be back at JavaLand 2021, where I will give a talk about Jakarta EE. It will be a hybrid event, and it looks like I will do my talk remotely. I have been a speaker at every edition of JavaLand so far and always joined the JavaLand jogging on Wednesday morning. This year, I will have to do a run in the morning from my home in order to keep the spirit going.

On Thursday, I have Dalia as a special guest in Studio Jakarta EE LIVE. We will talk about tooling support for Jakarta EE. Dalia is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains and will demo the support offered by IntelliJ IDEA for Jakarta EE in this session.

In the video below, Dalia shows how easy it is to get started with Jakarta EE 9 in IntelliJ IDEA.

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

Big day on Tuesday! The second edition of JakartaOne Livestream happens on December 8, 2020. Make sure you are registered!

I am really looking forward to hosting this event together with Tanja. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and lots of great Jakarta EE and MicroProfile content prepared for you.

Between each session, we will return to Studio Jakarta EE for lightning talks, interviews, tech demos discussions, and awards. And, of course, there will be cake!

The Jakarta MVC 2.0 release review ballot has started. The ballot period is 14 days, so it will conclude on December 17, 2020. We are extremely happy to be able to embrace the jakarta.* namespace and run on top of Jakarta EE 9 so quickly after its release.

Eclipse GlassFish 6.0.0 is just around the corner. The release candidate (RC2) has been available for a while, and the team is working on wrapping up the last bits and pieces to release the final version. Hopefully, it will be available for download on Tuesday.

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

JakartaOne Livestream 2020 is just around the corner. Make sure you register today!

We continue the cupcake success from the Milestone party in June. This time we go even bigger! A final release deserves a proper CAKE! Join us in the celebration, bake a cake, upload a photo of your creation and win big prizes!

The Jakarta EE Virtual Tour continues in 2021. Reach out if you would like us to visit your JUG/Meetup.

Are you still using JDK Internals? Well, then you should probably be aware that these will be encapsulated by default in Java 16. See JEP 396 for the details. Before you blow a fuse and start getting nightmares from your dependence on sun.misc.Unsafe, relax 🙂 It will still be available, at least for now. This applies to all the critical internal APIs for which standard replacements do not exist yet.