Community Day at EclipseCon 2022 was held in person on Monday, October 24 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Community Day has always been a great event for Eclipse working groups and project teams, including Jakarta EE/MicroProfile. This year was no exception. A number of great sessions were delivered from prominent folks in the community. The following are the details including session materials. The agenda can still be found here. All the materials can be found here. Jakarta EE Community State of the Union The first session of the day was a Jakarta EE community state of the union delivered by Tanja ..read more

FOSDEM took place February 5-6. The European based event is one of the most significant gatherings worldwide focused on all things Open Source. Named the “Friends of OpenJDK”, in recent years the event has added a devroom/track dedicated to Java. The effort is lead by my friend and former colleague Geertjan Wielenga. Due to the pandemic, the 2022 event was virtual once again. I delivered a couple of talks on Jakarta EE as well as Diversity & Inclusion. Fundamentals of Diversity & Inclusion for Technologists I opened the second day of the conference with my newest talk titled “Fundamen ..read more

JConf Peru 2021 took place November 27th. This was the third time the event was held and due to the pandemic, the 2021 event was virtual and free. I am very proud to have participated as an invited speaker – the JConf series is an admirable effort by the Spanish speaking Java community to hold world-class events. My friend and Peru JUG leader Jose Diaz and his wife Miryan Ramirez have worked hard to make JConf Peru a reality. Jakarta EE had a strong presence at the event including talks on Quarkus and TomEE. I delivered three talks at the conference focused on Jakarta EE and Azure. Powering Ja ..read more

The DOAG 2021 conference took place November 16-18. This is the long running annual event organized by the German Oracle technology user community – one of the largest in the world. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 event was virtual. There is always some Java related content in the event, including on Jakarta EE, WebLogic, Coherence and Helidon. I delivered two talks on Jakarta EE, WebLogic and Azure. Running WebLogic on Azure Kubernetes and Virtual Machines On the second day of the conference, I had the relatively rare opportunity to deliver a talk titled “Running WebLogic on Azure Kubernetes a ..read more

EclipseCon 2021 took place October 25-28. EclipseCon has long been a world-class conference for all things Eclipse. With the Java EE transition to the Eclipse Foundation, EclipseCon has become a truly significant event for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile developers. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 event was virtual (and free!). Jakarta EE unsurprisingly had a strong presence at the conference with talks on Jakarta EE 9.x, Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile 4.x, MicroProfile 5, Jakarta Security, Jakarta Concurrency, Jakarta REST, Jakarta NoSQL and MicroProfile GraphQL from speakers such as Tanja Obradovic ..read more

JCON 2021 took place October 5-8. This is a world-class conference run by the German JAVAPRO magazine. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 event was virtual. Jakarta EE had a strong presence at the conference with talks on the Jakarta EE Core Profile, Jakarta EE Security, Jakarta NoSQL, MicroProfile 4, Quarkus, Helidon and Open Liberty from speakers such as Ivar Grimstad, Adam Bien, Otavio Santana, Emily Jiang, Werner Keil, Ed Burns, Grace Jansen, Rudy De Busscher and Graham Charters. I delivered three talks and a workshop at the conference focused on Java, Jakarta EE and Azure. A Freakonomic Take ..read more

EclipseCon 2021 Community Day is on Monday, October 25 15:00 to 21:00 CET (the day before the start of the main EclipseCon conference). Community Day at EclipseCon has always been a great event for Eclipse working groups and project teams. This year both EclipseCon and Community Day is virtual and free. Space for Community Day is limited, so please register and save your spot soon. We have a packed agenda centered on the Jakarta EE, MicroProfile and Cloud Native Java communities. If there is a set of very focused sessions you should attend on these topics, the agenda offers the one place this ..read more

As you are likely aware, Java EE has transitioned to Open Source governance in the Eclipse Foundation as Jakarta EE. MicroProfile has been moving forward as an independent initiative to optimize enterprise Java for microservices architectures. The Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Alliance has recently been formed to promote better alignment between Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. One of the key issues to sort out is how Jakarta EE can consume MicroProfile specifications (such as MicroProfile Configuration). There are several alternatives as to how this could be done. These alternatives were put into ..read more

As you are likely aware, Java EE has transitioned to Open Source governance in the Eclipse Foundation as Jakarta EE. MicroProfile has been moving forward as an independent initiative to optimize enterprise Java for microservices architectures. The Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Alliance has recently been formed to promote better alignment between Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. One of the key issues to sort out is how Jakarta EE can consume MicroProfile specifications (such as MicroProfile Configuration). There are several alternatives as to how this could be done. The following is a brief analysis ..read more

JConf Peru 2020 took place October 23-24. This was the second time the event was held and due to the pandemic, the 2020 event was virtual and free. I am very proud to have participated as an invited speaker – the JConf series is an admirable effort by the Spanish speaking Java community to hold world-class events. My friend and Peru JUG leader Jose Diaz and his wife Miryan Ramirez have worked hard to make JConf Peru a reality. I delivered three talks at the conference focused on Java, Jakarta EE and Azure. How Microsoft Learned to Love Java On the first day of the conference I delivered my Jav ..read more