Jakarta Tech Talks

Jakarta Agentic AI is a new open initiative under the Eclipse Foundation exploring how AI agents can be built, deployed, and run within Jakarta EE runtimes.In this Jakarta Tech Talks open house session, we’ll introduce the project, walk through its goals and share the thinking behind why agentic AI belongs in the Jakarta ecosystem.
We’ll discuss:- What agentic AI is, and why it matters for Jakarta EE.

• The initial goals and design direction of the Jakarta Agentic AI project.
• How the project aims to stay open, flexible, and community-driven
• Where feedback, discussion, and contributions are most valuable right now. This is not a product launch or a finished specification.

It’s an opportunity to explore ideas together, ask questions, share concerns, and help shape the direction of a project at a very early stage.
Join us to learn, discuss, and help ensure Jakarta EE remains an active participant in the future of intelligent, agent-driven Java applications.

## Jakarta Tech Talk: Accelerating a Software Engineer’s Career Through Open Source: Lessons from Jakarta EE

Writing code well is no longer enough to grow as a senior, staff, or principal software engineer. Modern engineering careers demand architectural thinking, communication, leadership, and real-world influence beyond the codebase.

This talk explores how open source—specifically through contributions to Jakarta EE, the foundation of enterprise Java—provides a practical, battle-tested path to developing both hard and soft skills. Drawing from real experiences in the Jakarta EE ecosystem, the session highlights how contributing to standards, specifications, and community processes helps engineers sharpen design discipline, improve communication, build global credibility, and develop leadership skills that cannot be learned in isolation.
Rather than treating open source as a side activity or philosophical ideal, this presentation reframes it as a concrete career accelerator.

Attendees will learn why open source work increasingly replaces traditional signals like whiteboard interviews, how it strengthens architectural judgment, and how consistent contributions can reshape long-term career trajectories.

The session concludes with pragmatic guidance on how to start contributing safely and effectively—especially for engineers who want to make an impact without burning out.

## Jakarta Tech Talk - Jakarta EE 12: Entering the Data Age of Enterprise Java

Jakarta EE 12 marks a fundamental shift in how enterprise Java treats data, lifecycle, and configuration at the platform level. This release introduces the Data Age of Jakarta EE, where querying, data access, initialization, and consistency are treated as first-class concerns across the entire ecosystem.

In this session, we explore what’s new in Jakarta EE 12, focusing on Jakarta Query as a unifying query language across Jakarta Persistence, Jakarta Data, and Jakarta NoSQL, and how this foundation reshapes higher-level specifications. We examine how CDI evolves beyond lazy dependency injection to support eager initialization and predictable startup behavior—an essential requirement for data-driven systems, cloud-native runtimes, and agent-based architectures.

We also discuss the impact of Java 21 as the new platform baseline, the growing role of polyglot persistence, and emerging initiatives such as Jakarta Agentic AI. Rather than viewing specifications in isolation, this talk connects them into a coherent platform story, showing how Jakarta EE 12 reduces fragmentation, improves developer productivity, and enables architects to design adaptive, long-lived enterprise systems without breaking existing applications.