Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond with Ivar Grimstad and Tanja Obradović

Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond

Together with other Java EE leaders, Oracle announced in 2017 that they will open source Java EE at the Eclipse Foundation under the name of Jakarta EE. With the creation of both Eclipse MicroProfile and Eclipse OpenJ9 projects, the Eclipse Foundation has become the place to be for Enterprise Java technologies.

In this session, Tanja and Ivar will go through the upcoming Jakarta EE 9 release, how it lowers the barriers of entry, eases the migration, and lays the foundation for a platform for future innovation.
They will also look ahead towards what future releases may bring, as well as showing demos of how to convert from the javax.* to jakarta.* namespace and showcase available implementations and tooling support available.

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About Jakarta EE (https://jakarta.ee/about)

Jakarta EE is a set of specifications that enables the world wide community of java developers to work on java enterprise applications. The specifications are developed by well known industry leaders that instills confidence in technology developers and consumers.

The key aim of Jakarta EE from the outset has been to build a cloud native Java platform for developers today and into the future, addressing technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio as well as improvements in the language itself.

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SPEAKERS:

Ivar Grimstad:
Ivar is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden. He is the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) and involved in the Jakarta EE Working Group. He is also one of the community representatives in the JCP Executive Committee as well as specification lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0). Ivar is also involved in Eclipse MicroProfile, Apache NetBeans and a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.

Tanja Obradović:
Tanja is Jakarta EE Program Manager at the Eclipse Foundation. Having been involved with Java and Java EE for quite some time, revitalizing Enterprise Java and making it ready for cloud-native application development with Jakarta EE open source specifications is something that she is very much interested in.