2022 JCP Elections Results

I am happy to announce that Eclipse Foundation was re-elected for an elected seat in the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee with 50% of the votes. You can check out all the results on the 2022 Executive Committee Election page.

Thanks to everyone that voted!

The remaining elected seat in this year’s election went to Microsoft. This will be their first appearance on the Executive Committee, but they will have a flying start since their representative Martijn Verburg has been an Executive Committee Member for a long time representing the London Java Community.

Øredev 2022

Øredev is a well-established conference that has been around since 2005. As you may see from the beautiful social card created for my talk, the theme for this year was Alice in Wonderland.

The conference was, as always true to its theme. The room I was assigned was called Upstairs and was located upstairs. Next to it, there was a room named Downstairs but was still located upstairs. Confusing? Well, luckily enough the conference website had a locator map and I guess the attendees figured it out since I had an almost full room for my session.

Check out the slides for my talk titled Attention Java Developers – Everything YOU need to Know About Jakarta EE 10.

As most of you know, getting decent coffee can be a problem at most conferences. Øredev is an exception. There is a barista in the corner of the exhibition floor that brews the most exquisite coffee. They do charge a little for it, but one of the perks of being a speaker is that you get it for free by showing the speaker badge.

As speakers, we are also invited to a speaker dinner in the splendid Malmö City Hall. A nice way to start the conference week!

Hack.Commit.Push Paris 2022

Hack.Commit.Push 2022 in Paris on November 5 was a one-day event where the goal was to help the participants to get started by contributing to an open-source project of their choice.

The goal of the event is that the participants should be able to have contributed something to an open-source project by the end of the day. The projects at this event were:

The Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE is a source code generator for Jakarta EE projects. The current version is using Maven archetypes to generate a starting point for Jakarta EE application development. The starter can be found at start.jakarta.ee.

At Hack.Commit.Push 2022 in Paris, I worked on the starter together with Clarence Dimitri Charles. During the event, he was able to contribute the Profile selector in the UI, as well as the associated functionality in the archetype for Jakarta EE 10.

Events like Hack.Commit.Push are extremely useful to get community involvement in open-source. It is important that the projects participating have a low entry barrier so it is possible to get enough of an understanding quickly to be able to make a contribution in a couple of hours. The Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE, with its simple architecture, is a great example of such a project. I hope to be able to participate in lots of events like this in the future. There are lots of projects within the Jakarta EE ecosystem that could fit well in this model.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #150

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

An intense period of back-to-back conferences has come to an end. There is only one event left on my schedule for 2022, and that is JakartaOne Livestream on December 6.

As you can see, the speaker lineup is impressive this year as well. The talk descriptions and schedule will be published shortly. With speakers from all over the World, it is a bit of a puzzle to get everything aligned with time zones and such. Please register so you get the information as soon as it is made available.

As last year, we will return to Studio Jakarta EE between the sessions. The studio hosts this year will be Tanja, Shabnam, and myself. We are still working on the details of these sessions, but you may look forward to a lot of fun, an invited quest or two, and loose talk with and around the Jakarta EE community.

And there will be prizes. In previous editions of JakartaOne Livestream, we baked cupcakes, cakes, and pizza. I’m not sure what Tanja and Shabnam will come up with this year, but I am sure it will be tasty!

Reminder: 2022 JCP EC Elections

Here is a reminder! The 2022 elections for the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) are in their second week. The ballot will be closed on November 14, only a week away. Don’t wait until the last moment, cast your vote today!

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 currently the primary representative for Eclipse Foundation on the Executive Committee, and will also be continuing as that if we are re-elected. Prior to that, I served to terms as an individual holding an associate seat.

A Vote for Eclipse Foundation is a Vote for Open Source

Hashtag Jakarta EE #149

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

A busy period with conferences and events is slowly winding down. After being on the road more or less since summer, I am looking forward to spending an entire month at home. That does not mean that conference season is over. Next week I will present Jakarta EE at Øredev 2022 in Malmö. This conference is convenient for me since I can go to the venue by bike.

We had the first Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture Call earlier this week. We had great discussions around topics like the CDI-centric approach, alignment with Java SE versions, and release cadence. Check out the minutes if you weren’t able to join.

Since the topics in the Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture Calls are around cross-cutting concerns and architectural decisions for the platform, it is extremely important that the various individual component specifications participate in some way or the other. It is a means for the Jakarta EE Platform Project to get input before making decisions that may impact the component specifications as well as a direct channel for the component specifications to raise concerns and request support or feature from other component specifications and the platform itself.

Make sure to subscribe to the Jakarta EE Specifications Calendar to get information about upcoming calls and find details on how to connect. These calls will also be recorded in the future. We just forgot to do it this time.

JakartaOne Livestream 2022 is only a month away. Please register to be a part of this annual online conference! As always, the speaker lineup is impressive. The program and schedule will be announced shortly.

J-FALL 2022

1800 attendees at a one-day conference is impressive! J-Fall is organised by NLJUG as a truly community oriented event. Conference passes for NLJUG members are free.

The J-Fall 2022 speaker lineup was amazing, and I am proud to be a part of it. My session titled Modern and Lightweight Cloud Application Development with Jakarta EE 10 was very well attended and I got a lot of good questions afterwards. Maybe motivated by the t-shirts handed out to the first three attendees to ask a question…

Between the talks I was able to pop by the local store and stock up on Stroopwafels. It should help remind me that Dutch Sushi is not a thing, and I better use Stroopwafels next time I do a demo in the Netherlands

2022 JCP EC Elections

The 2022 elections for the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) have started. The ballot will be open for voting between November 1 and 14.

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 currently the primary representative for Eclipse Foundation on the Executive Committee, and will also be continuing as that if we are re-elected. Prior to that, I served to terms as an individual holding an associate seat.

A Vote for Eclipse Foundation is a Vote for Open Source

Check the JCP elections website and follow @jcp_org on Twitter for announcements.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #148

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The conference season continues. Last week, I was at EclipseCon 2022 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I am now enjoying a couple of days at home before heading out again. The first out is J-Fall 2022 in Ede, Netherlands on Thursday, November 3. After that, I am going to Paris, France to be part of the Hack.Commit.Push event there on Saturday, November 6.

Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture Call

On Tuesday, the Jakarta EE Platform project is hosting the first Monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture Call. This monthly call will happen on the first Tuesday of every month. Specification projects are encouraged to be represented at these calls.

Time: Tuesday, November 1 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. See the Jakarta EE Specifications Calendar for how to connect.

The topics for the call on November 1 are:

  • CDI Centric Approach (#552)
  • Release Cadence
  • Java SE Versions Alignment (#553)
  • Participation in TCK Refactoring (#559)

I also want to point you to the Monthly TCK Call, which also can be found in the Jakarta EE Specifications Calendar. This call happens on the first Wednesday of every month.

EclipseCon 2022

For EclipseCon 2022, we were back in Ludwigsburg again. Since the two previous editions of EclipseCon were virtual, this was the first time since 2019.

On Monday before the main conference, we had the Jakarta EE Community Day. The agenda featured a lot of interesting talks and discussion topics. Thanks to Reza Rahman for putting it together!

The program of EclipseCon 2022 contained lots of Jakarta EE-related content. The Jakarta EE stand was co-located with iJUG, and they did a great job handing out Jakarta EE branded luggage tags, card holders, hoodies, and stickers while answering questions from the attendees.

My talk titled Jakarta EE 10 – Simplicity for Modern and Lightweight Cloud Applications gathered a decent crowd. Check out the slides here.

As Justin points out, Java runs anywhere. And so does Emily. So this year we launched the Emily Challenge, which was to run every morning while at EclipseCon. I really enjoy these morning runs as a way to kickstart the conference days. We also had the annual Jakarta EE Community Run on Wednesday were six runners showed up.