Welcome to issue number three hundred and three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Croatia for JavaCro 2025. The conference season isn't quite over yet. Next week, I will go to Kraków to present Jakarta EE at JDD 2025. Last time I was at JDD was in 2014, so It has been a while since I spoke at this conference.

My first time at JavaCro was a vert pleasant ecperience. I have heard so much about this conference located on an Island off the shore of Croatia. The Island is Sveti Andrija (St. Andrew Island), a 15-minute boat trip from Rovinj. I had two talks on the first day of the conference. The day started with Tanja's talk titled Jakarta EE impact on the Java ecosystem.

This was my second time speaking at IBM TechXchange. First time was at the inaugural event in 2023 located in Las Vegas with around 2000 attendees. At this year's event in Orlando, it had grown to around 9000 attendees. New this year was that the Java community track was organised by JCON. We had a room at prime location near the registration area.

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile is released! It's a little later than planned, but we're finally there, and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile joins Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile among the released specifications. It has been a tremendous effort to refactor the TCK. Eclipse GlassFish was used as the ratifying compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile.

Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I had six days at home in October. November will give me thirteen days at home, and no long-haul flights planned. But…

Spring I/O 2025 was a great experience! It is an extremely well-organized conference with an awesome community. It was my second time as a speaker, and I will definitely send talk abstracts to the …

It was finally time for the first edition of Jalapeño. It was initially planned to be in 2020, but because of the pandemic, it was delayed until this year. But it was absolutely worth the wait! Loc…

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Welcome to issue number two hundred and ten of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2024. Now with an updated featured image. I have used the same image for all the previous 209…

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week’s trip to Amsterdam and the Picnic Java Meetup was a success. Next up is IBM TechXchange in Las Vega…

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Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was at Dominican Republic where I spoke at JConf Domincana in Santo Domingo. You can read all about it in my blog post from the eventConf Dominicana. Earlier in the week, before I traveled, we had the weekly Jakarta EE Platform call. We had some good progress in detailing the planned milestones for Jakarta EE 12 and defining the expectations for the first milestone.

I visited Porto once back in the ’90s when I was Interrailing (traveling by train on a relatively affordable ticket valid in most European countries) across Europe with some friends. But that…