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Hashtag Jakarta EE #138

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

It’s still vacation time…Even so, the work with finalizing Jakarta EE 10 goes on. I was out sailing during the last platform call, but from what I can deduct from the meeting minutes, the status is pretty much the same as last week – a clean run of the Jakarta EE TCK by Eclipse GlassFish and corresponding certification requests is needed to start the release review ballots.

I read a lot when I am taking time off work. Mostly fiction, but from time to time I pick up a non-fiction book on my Kindle reader. This week, I got my hands on Helidon in Action (MEAP) by Dmitry Kornilov, Dmitry Aleksandrov, and Daniel Kec.

For those of you not familiar with MEAP, it means that you get access to the chapters as they are written. At this point, the three first chapters were available. It gives a brief introduction to cloud-native applications and shows how to get started with Helidon before it dives into the gory details of configuration. The authors do a great job making it a great reading experience, and I look forward to the remaining chapters as they are written.

The registration for EclipseCon 2022 is still open. This year’s EclipseCon will take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from October 24 to October 27.

On Monday, October 23, there will be a Jakarta EE Community Day. More details about the program for that day will be announced shortly. I will be there, and hope to see as many of you as possible!

Hashtag Jakarta EE #137

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I am enjoying a couple of weeks off so this update will be fairly short. The ballot for ratifying Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile closes on Monday. The votes on the mailing list show that the vote will pass and Jakarta EE Core 10 Core Profile is approved! It will be made available in Maven Central and on the web page as soon as the project teams get around to it.

So, what about the Jakarta EE 10 Platform and Web Profile then? If I understand it correctly, there is one test failing for Eclipse GlassFish 7 in order to pass the Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile TCK. As soon as that happens, and a certification request for GlassFish is attached to the ballot materials, both Jakarta EE 10 Platform and Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile should be ready for release reviews.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #136

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

The ballot for ratification of Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile is open until August 15, 2022. Members of the Jakarta EE Specification Committee have binding votes. Still, community members are encouraged to cast their non-binding votes by replying to this thread on the public specification committee mailing list.

For Jakarta EE 10 Platform and Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile, the situation is pretty much the same as last week. Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.0.M7 passes the Jakarta EE Platform TCK, but there is still work being done on the TCK for Jakarta Concurrency 3.0 to be fully included in Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile.

Jakarta MVC 2.1 is chugging along in parallel to Jakarta EE 10. The specification work is almost done, and Eclipse Krazo 3.0 passes a release candidate of the TCK. Currently, Tobias Erdle is doing an amazing job separating out some of the view engines to a separate Krazo Extensions repository. The motivation for this work is that since some of the view technologies in question are no longer actively maintained, it will lighten the maintenance burden on the Eclipse Krazo project.

The registration for EclipseCon 2022 is open. Here’s a tip for you: The best time to ask your manager for approval to go to EclipseCon is just before they head out of the door for vacation. You would be amazed at what you can get approved when they’re one click away from enabling their out-of-office notification, and a simple ‘yes’ is all it takes.

This year’s EclipseCon will take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from October 24 to October 27.

On Monday, October 23, there will be a Jakarta EE Community Day. More details about the program for that day will be announced shortly. I will be there, and hope to see as many of you as possible!

Hashtag Jakarta EE #135

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

In last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE (#134), I announced that the Jakarta EE 10 Platform was ready for ballot. I even started the ballot (since I am the appointed Jakarta EE Specification Committee Mentor for this specification) the following Tuesday. As it turned out, the specification was requested to be withdrawn from the ballot by the Jakarta EE Platform project. The reason is that there were changes needed in the Jakarta Concurrency TCK to accommodate the move to the Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile for that specification. These changes are of such nature that the Jakarta EE TCK Process wouldn’t allow them without a new minor release. As a consequence, the Jakarta EE Specification Committee passed a resolution to allow these changes in a service release in this special case.

Rather than being frustrated that the release sort of drags out, I am actually quite relieved. It is an example that the processes work, and they are there for a reason. The Jakarta EE Working Group does not compromise when it comes to compatibility and quality! That’s why this technology is something you can rely on, and continue building your mission-critical applications with.

I probably shouldn’t come up with any predictions for when the release is ready for ballot again other than it is really close. Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile looks like it is ready for ballot again after the necessary fixes to its TCK have been done.

Here is a reminder that the registration for EclipseCon 2022 is open. This year’s EclipseCon will take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from October 24 to October 27.

Check out the program to see what you will be missing if you’re not going to attend. I also want to point you specifically to the great Jakarta EE talks in the program.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #134

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

Here’s some good news! The Jakarta EE 10 Platform will go on ballot for its release review next week. Most likely on Monday. The Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile also looks to be in good shape, and will probably follow suit. Jakarta EE 10 Web Profile is waiting for a small update to the Jakarta Concurrency 3.0 TCK.

Another interesting event last week is that the creation review ballot for Jakarta Data was started this week. Creation reviews run for seven days according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP), so this ballot will conclude early this week. When the release review has concluded, Jakarta Data will appear in the list of specifications on https://jakarta.ee.

The conference season is now over for my part. Read my writeup from the season finale, which was JBCNConf 2022. After some well-deserved weeks of vacation, I will be out there with the community again in September and forward. The first planned conference will be JavaZone 2022 in Oslo. But you won’t get totally rid of me until then. The weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE will, of course, continue to come out even during summer.

JBCNConf 2022

JBCNConf 2022 was my last conference for the “season”. And what a conference! It is organized by the Barcelona Java User Group and has had a steady increase in the number of attendees from year to year. This year with more than 1000 participants!

Jakarta EE had a booth in the Community area of the exhibition hall that was staffed by Jadon from Payara in addition to Tanja and me. Emilemilyfhjiangy from IBM helped out as well. We had Jakarta EE branded mousepads, coasters, and screen wipes in addition to the awesome Jakarta EE stickers to hand out to those visiting us.

I presented Jakarta EE 10 – Feature by Feature on the second day of the conference where I incorporated a demo of Payara Cloud to show how easy it can be for developers to deploy Jakarta EE applications nowadays. It truly fits with the Simplified theme of Jakarta EE 10.

And of course, every conference day starts with a morning run.

EclipseCon 2022 Registration is open

The registration for EclipseCon 2022 is open. This year’s EclipseCon will take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from October 24 to October 27.

There are some great Jakarta EE talks for you to attend! Also, remember to browse the complete program as there may be other topics that you will find interesting as well.

Here are a couple of arguments you can use if you need to convince your boss to be allowed to go to EclipseCon 2022:

  • Inspiration – get inspired by attending talks by some of the greatest speakers in the community
  • Network – meet and mingle with committers from all of the Eclipse Foundation projects
  • Learn – listen to domain experts
  • Master – participate in the hands-on-labs, or contribute to open source projects in the hackerspace
  • Discuss – use the opportunity to discuss issues from your daily work with other community members in the hallway

Hashtag Jakarta EE #133

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

GlassFish 7.0.0-M7 passes the Jakarta EE 10 Platform TCK. The issues that are left affect the TCKs for Jakarta EE 10 Web- and Core Profiles. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but it is hard to predict precisely when these issues will be resolved. The best way to stay informed is to join the platform call on Tuesdays and/or follow the mailing lists, and of course follow the Hasthag Jakarta EE blog series.

The proposal for the Jakarta Data specification has completed the community review, and it is now being prepared for creation review ballot by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee. All according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP).

The Registration for EclipseCon 2022 is now OPEN! Make sure to register in order to save you spot at the event happening in Ludwigsburg in October. There are some great Jakarta EE talks for you to attend. And, as always, a bunch of other topics as well.

And, if you are into running, I will arrange a Jakarta EE Community Morning run at least one of the days of the conference. Look out for #runWithJakartaEE on social media when we’re closer to the event.

Next up for me, if the traveling gods are still with me, is JBCNConf in Barcelona from July 18 to 20. I will present a talk titled Jakarta EE 10 – Feature by Feature, and Tanja will present Jakarta EE: Community Power and Progress.

Here’s some good news if you are a sucker for cool swag. While I was at the Eclipse Foundation All Hands meeting this week, I picked up a bunch of swag to give away at the upcoming conferences. When I checked in to my flight at Ottawa Airport, I discovered that mouse pads are heavier than they look. Solved it by taking them as hand luggage. Part of the story is that my baggage is loaded with maple syrup, so it was already quite heavy 😋

Hashtag Jakarta EE #132

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

The program for EclipseCon 2022 has been published! The conference will be in Ludwigsburg, Germany from October 24 to October 27 later this year.

There is no fast track for Eclipse Foundation staff to speaking slots at EclipseCon. We have to submit abstracts just like anyone else aspiring to become an EclipseCon speaker. Luckily, I got two talks accepted. One of which I am listed as co-speaker.

My accepted talks are Jakarta EE 10 – Simplicity for Modern and Lightweight Cloud Applications and Jakarta EE Security – Sailing Safe in Troubled Waters (co-speaker with Werner Keil).

The status is more or less the same as I reported in Hashtag Jakarta EE #131 last week. There are three remaining issues to resolve before the release is ready. 1) CDI Language Model TCK failure in GlassFish, 2) Jakarta Concurrency 3.0 TCK contains remote Jakarta Enterprise Beans, and 3) Jakarta RESTful Web Services 3.1 TCK contains tests for Jakarta XML Binding 4.0.

The Eclipse GlassFish project is working on a fix for 1), and there are Pull Requests being discussed for 2) and 3), so there is a small possibility that the Jakarta EE Platform, Web– and Core Profile can be ready for release review ballots the upcoming week.

The Jakarta EE Platform passes the TCK, and has filed a Compatibility Certification Request for Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.

I had a great trip to DWX’22 last week, even if the travel home took a little longer than planned. A flight turned into a train ride and an extra night at a Frankfurt Airport hotel before an early morning flight back home. Now, let’s see how Tomorrow’s trip to Ottawa will be affected by striking pilots…

Developer Week ’22

This was my second time in Nürnberg for Developer Week. The last time I spoke here was in 2017, except for an online talk in 2021. If I should estimate, the conference this year was about half the size of what it used to be, which is pretty normal nowadays. With around 5-600 attendees daily, it is still a decent-sized conference.

Developer Week is mostly geared towards .NET developers, but there is a Java track as well with quite a few interesting talks. I was a co-speaker with Werner Keil on Jakarta EE Security – Sailing Safe in Troubled Waters.

Right after this talk, my talk titled Jakarta EE 10 – Feature by Feature was up. It was nice to have a full hour to present, with plenty of room for live demos. Usually, I have to cut a couple of the demos a little when the speaking slot is shorter.

Before going to the conference, I did a morning run along the old city walls of Nuremberg. Of course, wearing my Jakarta EE running shirt!