Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond

Jakarta EE Virtual World Tour !!!

ABSTRACT:

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.

SPEAKERS:

Tanja Obradović (Twitter: @TanjaEclipse)
Jakarta EE Program Manager, Eclipse Foundation

Tanja Obradović is the 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.

Ivar Grimstad (Twitter: @ivar_grimstad)
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate, Eclipse Foundation

Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion, and JUG Leader based in Sweden. Ivar 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.

=========

AGENDA:

[CHICAGO-CST / SWEDEN-CET]

11:55am / 6:55pm e-Doors Open

12:05am / 7:05pm Intro & Announcements

12:15pm / 7:15pm Presentation by Tanja & Ivar

1:15pm / 8:15pm Q&A

1:30pm / 8:30pm (Optional) Post-meetup Social / v-Drinks

**e-Doors close when the last participant leaves the event