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...
The Jakarta EE community thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared vision for the future of enterprise Java. As the ecosystem continues to evolve, so must the ways we communicate, educate, and engage with developers and organisations around the world. This is why we’re excited to share the first phase...
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...
Initiative 31 Final Report: proving an OS-agnostic future for SWT The Eclipse Platform has been powering the Eclipse IDE and a large ecosystem of Eclipse RCP applications for more than two decades. It is one of those technologies that quietly keeps critical tools running, in software engineering teams and across...
As we begin the new year, it's a great time to reflect on what the Adoptium community accomplished in 2025. From ongoing releases and a redesigned website to the growing success of the Eclipse Temurin, 2025 was a year of growth, stability, and renewed commitment to delivering high-quality, open source...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! My first post of 2026 will be very similar to the last of 2025. I hope everyone has had a wonderful couple of weeks of time during the Holidays. The first Jakarta EE Platform call...
It is time to bid farewell to 2025 and welcome 2026. I was able to speak on five continents this year. We really should see if we can have a conference in Antarctica at some point. In addition to regular Java conferences and Java User Groups, I also attended and...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025. It is also a pretty short one since it is in the midst of the Holidays. A fun fact is that 313 (the number of this Hashtag) is the...
As we reach the end of 2025, I find myself looking back not just at milestones, but at momentum. Twelve months ago, we knew what we had to do: secure the foundations, sustain the platform, welcome new contributors, and prepare for a future defined by extensibility, openness, and AI. The...
As 2025 comes to an end, it is the right time to look back at how the Oniro Working Group has evolved. If the first half of the year was about exploration and setting up our tools, the second half has been about putting those tools to the test. We...