Jakarta EE

JCrete 2023

JCrete is the perfect way to end the conference season before summer. JCrete 2023 was, in my opinion, one of the better editions that I have attended so far.

JCrete is an unConference. That means that there are no scheduled talks upfront. Actually, there are no talks at all, only discussions. And the topics are proposed, voted on, and scheduled every morning.

The topics span almost everything from low-level Java VM stuff to mindfulness and financial independence. It all depends on what the participants propose to talk about.

Each day, after lunch we go on various excursions to the beautiful beaches of Crete where the discussions continue. Often in the water while swimming.

Check out JUnconf.org if you are interested in attending a Java-themed unConference, but don’t want to wait a year until the next JCrete.

Every morning at 06:30 AM, the early risers among us went for a run. JCrete in July can be very hot, so the best time to get in some exercise is in the morning before the sun rises too high. All runners got a nice Jakarta EE running shirt.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #184

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

I have just arrived home from JCrete 2023, so this will be a rather short one. A write-up from JCrete will be published shortly. Here is a teaser in the form of a group picture.

It’s Sunday again, and time for the weekly update on the current status of plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11. Nine plans have been approved, four are on ballot, three are ready for ballot, and we’re still waiting for Jakarta Bean Validation to submit a plan (Snapshot from Sunday, July 9, 2023):

Plan Approved
Jakarta Authentication 3.1
Jakarta Authorization 3.0 (to be announced)
Jakarta Data 1.0
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
Jakarta MVC 3.0 (to be announced)
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
Jakarta Pages 4.0
Jakarta Persistence 3.2
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0

On Ballot
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1 (ballot)
Jakarta Faces 5.0 (ballot)
Jakarta Interceptors 2.2 (ballot)
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2 (ballot)

Ready for Ballot
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1

Expected
Jakarta Bean Validation 3.1 or 4.0

Hashtag Jakarta EE #183

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

The weekly update on the current status of plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 shows good progress. Seven plans have been approved, two are on ballot, eight are ready for ballot, and one straggler we’re waiting for to submit a plan (Snapshot from Sunday, July 2, 2023):

Plan Approved
Jakarta Authentication 3.1
Jakarta Data 1.0
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
Jakarta Pages 4.0
Jakarta Persistence 3.2
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0

On Ballot
Jakarta Authorization 3.0 (ballot)
Jakarta MVC 3.0 (ballot)

Ready for Ballot
Jakarta Bean Validation
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
Jakarta Interceptors 2.2
Jakarta Faces 5.0
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2

Expected
Jakarta Bean Validation 3.1 or 4.0

Last week, I visited Amsterdam for GOTO Amsterdam 2023 and Amsterdam JUG. This week, I will be on the Island of Crete attending JCrete. This will be my last event before summer, and it is a perfect way to round off the conference season. JCrete is an unconference, which means that there are no talks scheduled and the agenda is made up as we go. It is a cool concept, and the topics tend to be of all kinds of categories. Something for everyone! If you want to check out an unconference, check out The JUnconference Alliance.

By the way, I am now also on Bluesky. You can find me there as ivargrimstad.bsky.social. Not sure if it will ever take off, or where it will go, but at least I am there now.

Amsterdam JUG

Directly after GOTO Amsterdam 2023 ended, I headed to the IKEA offices in Amsterdam with Geertjan and Geerit to speak at the Amsterdam JUG. We had a great walk through Amsterdam with Geertjan as our tour guide.

The 60 to 70 attendees were served Swedish meatballs (we were hosted by IKEA after all) and three talks. Check out the detailed agenda at the Amsterdam JUG Meetup. The slides from my talk “From Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 – And What’s Jakarta EE Got To Do With It” are available here. We had some really good questions and discussions after the talks. If you are in the Amsterdam area, make sure to join the group and attend their events!

GOTO Amsterdam 2023

GOTO Amsterdam 2023 was a really great experience! It was my first time speaking at a GOTO conference. In addition to Amsterdam, the GOTO conferences are organized in Chicago, Aarhus, and Copenhagen.

The venue, Beurs van Berlage is absolutely stunning. And the food is in the top tier of conference food. Usually, not a very hard list to climb on, but GOTO Amsterdam is definitely among the best.

My talk about Jakarta EE 10 with an additional demo of how to cope with the javax.* to jakarta.* namespace change in Spring was well attended. Check out the slides here.

As always when I go to conferences, I bring my running shoes and invite everyone to join me for a morning run. This time was no exception. Holly and I did a 5K run along the streets of Amsterdam in the light drizzling rain. Holly forgot her socks, so luckily I brought her a pair.

With inspiration and training from Alina, I am becoming quite the Instagrammer. Check out the story from GOTO Amsterdam 2023.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #182

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

This week’s update on the current status of the plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 shows that there are now three approved plans, four on ballot, and nine ready for ballot (Snapshot from Sunday, June 25, 2023):

Plan Approved
Jakarta Data 1.0
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0

On Ballot
Jakarta Authentication 3.1 (ballot)
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0 (ballot)
Jakarta Pages 4.0 (ballot)
Jakarta Persistence 3.2 (ballot)

Ready for Ballot
Jakarta Authorization 3.0
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
Jakarta Interceptors 2.2
Jakarta Faces 5.0
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2
Jakarta MVC 3.0

If you pay special attention, you will notice that the plan reviews for Jakarta Authentication 3.1, Jakarta Pages 4.0, and Jakarta Persistence 3.2 should have ended by now. Plan reviews have a 7-day voting period. However, a specification committee member can request to extend the period up to 30 days. That is what happened with these. They all have enough votes to be approved, but we are just waiting for the last votes to be able to close the ballot.

This week, the Eclipse Foundation staff met in Ottawa for our annual all-hands. We had a whole week of sessions, training, team building, and a whole lot of fun. In between the scheduled activities, we also had some opportunities to explore Canadian wildlife as seen in these pictures.

And, we are a sporty gang as well. On Thursday morning, a big bunch of us met up in the hotel lobby at 06.29 (that is AM) to go for a morning run.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #181

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

The scope of Jakarta EE 11 is taking shape. Here is an update on the current status of the plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 (Snapshot from Sunday, June 18, 2023):

Plan Approved
Jakarta Data 1.0
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0

On Ballot
Jakarta Authentication 3.1 (ballot)
Jakarta Pages 4.0 (ballot)
Jakarta Persistence 3.2 (ballot)

Ready for Ballot
Jakarta Authorization 3.0
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
Jakarta Faces 5.0
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2
Jakarta MVC 3.0

In addition to these, we hope that there will be an update to Jakarta Bean Validation (soon to be renamed to Jakarta Validation btw) to ensure that Validation works as expected with records.

Next week, I will be in Eastern Time for the Eclipse Foundation yearly all-hands in Ottawa. All staff will meet there to sync up and enable us to serve the Community in the best way possible. All usual activities, such as the weekly Jakarta EE Platform Call will go on as usual.

The week after, I will speak at the Amsterdam JUG since I am in Amsterdam speaking at GOTO Amsterdam that week anyway.

Hashtag Jakarta EE #180

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

In last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE, I listed all specifications planning an update for Jakarta EE 11. Among these, three of them are currently not part of the Platform. These independent component specifications, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta NoSQL 1.0, and Jakarta MVC 3.0, are all candidates for inclusion in Jakarta EE 11.

Jakarta Data provides an API to allow easy data access by implementing the Repository Pattern. Pretty much the way Spring Data does it. Join the discussion to voice your opinion regarding the inclusion of Jakarta Data in Jakarta EE 11.

Jakarta NoSQL provides a standard for streamlining the integration of Java applications with NoSQL databases. Join the discussion to voice your opinion regarding the inclusion of Jakarta NoSQL in Jakarta EE 11.

Jakarta MVC standardizes the action-based model-view-controller pattern as a complement to the component-based offered by Jakarta Faces. With the bubbling conversations about moving some of the rendering back to the server in the various client-side JavaScript frameworks, Jakarta MVC may turn out to be more relevant than ever. Join the discussion to voice your opinion regarding the inclusion of Jakarta MVC in Jakarta EE 11.

From time to time, some unexpected and/or cool usages of Jakarta EE specifications pop up. This week, Richard Schilling sent an email to the Jakarta EE Platform mailing list telling about his efforts to use Jakarta EE on Android. Check out jakartaee-mobile on GitHub.

If you are new to Jakarta EE or just want to complete a course for the Jakarta EE skill on LinkedIn, I have just published an overview course of Jakarta EE on LinkedIn Learning. Check it out, and tell me what you think!

Hashtag Jakarta EE #179

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

Planning for Jakarta EE 11 continues. There was a rush of requests for plan review submitted this week. At the moment, the specifications that are planning an update for Jakarta EE 11 are:

Jakarta Authentication 3.1
Jakarta Authorization 3.0
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
Jakarta Faces 5.0
Jakarta Pages 4.0
Jakarta Persistence 3.2
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0 (*)
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2

Jakarta Data 1.0 (*)
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0 (*)
Jakarta MVC 3.0

Those marked with (*) already have approved plans, so a plan review is not necessary for this release. Also note that Jakarta Data, Jakarta NoSQL, and Jakarta MVC are currently standalone specifications being discussed for inclusion in the Platform. Out of these three, my guess is that Jakarta Data is the one most likely to be included. There is an issue in the Jakarta EE Platform issue tracker to capture the discussion around this. Please do chime in if you have an opinion about it. Following this discussion, there will most likely be a formal vote on the Jakarta EE mailing list.

Last week’s trip to JPrime 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria was the last of four conferences I spoke at in May. Summer is approaching, and conference season is starting to wind down. My next conference will be GOTO Amsterdam at the end of June. While I am there, I will also speak at the Amsterdam JUG. More details will follow when the details are carved out.

JPrime 2023

JPrime is a very friendly conference that is a pleasure to speak at. This year it attracted around 1250 attendees, and with two parallel tracks, all speakers get a decent crown in their presentations.

The venue is great, with an outdoor area to escape the crowds in the exhibition area and enjoy the Sofia sun in between sessions.

My talk Modern and Lightweight Cloud Application Development with Jakarta EE 10 went well. I had a lot of demos and even added an extra demo right before the talk. Check out the slides on SpeakerDeck.

No conference without #runWithJakartaEE. JPrime was no exception. We had a morning run before each of the two conference days in addition to the day after the conference. The runners were Yarden, Emily, Grace, Heinz, Tagir, and me as you can see in the gallery below.