Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Ooops, I amn an little late publishing Hashtag Jakarta EE number 320. I am currently on my way home from Johannesburg and a successful JakartaOne by Jozi-JUG. I will write more about the event in a separate post next week. Speaking of next week, Immediately after returning from South Africa, I will head to San Jose, California for…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and nineteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I am writing this, I am sitting in my hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Me being here is actually as success story. I was supposed to present Jakarta EE at I Code Java on Tuesday and Wednesday. I have spoken at the conference twice before. Once in Cape Town and once here in Johannesburg.

This year's Jfokus was probably the busiest I have had. My schedule filled up even though I didn't have a talk at this year's conference. This year, I joined the group of volunteer stage hosts, so I had the pleasure of introducing speakers in one of the rooms on Wednesday afternoon. Whenever I am at Jfokus, I host the Jfokus 2026 Morning Run…

FOSDEM is a very special kind of event, and the 2006 edition was no exception. It is organised at a university campus, it is free for attendees, and there is a massive amount of exhibitors that are involved in open source in one way or the other. It is the place to be for the open source community, no question about that.

FOSDEM is a very special kind of event, and the 2006 edition was no exception. It is organised at a university campus, it is free for attendees, and there is a massive amount of exhibitors that are…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and eighteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I write this, I am in Brussels for FOSDEM'26. Stay tuned for an update from this conference in a separate post shortly. Fun fact is that I am sitting in exactly the same place in the lobby of the same hotel I stayed at for FOSDEM'19 writing this post as I did for…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and seventeen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! My first Jakarta EE presentation of 2026 was at Valencia JUG this week. This was the second time the JUG met after the restart after the pandemic. I wasn't the only one presenting, as I was there with a couple of my colleagues at Eclipse Foundation who gave an overview of some of the areas we have projects in as well as how to get involved in open source.

On Tuesday this week I presented The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java at the Valencia JUG. In addition to my talk, we also had a short presentation from Tanja about how to contribute to Jakarta EE as well as a panel of Eclipse Foundation colleagues presenting what we do in various working groups of Eclipse Foundation. I have done this talk quite a few times now, but I am keeping it current by adding and removing from it every time I present it.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference speaking season is starting up again. My first talk of the year will be at Valencia JUG where I will present The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java. After that, I will be attending FOSDEM in Brussels. These two events conclude my January.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The 27th of January, the date for Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12, is fast approaching. You can check out the status on the Jakarta EE 12 GitHub planning board. As you can see, there is still a lot of work to be done in order to get all the specifications past Milestone 2.

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