Prompt and Pray? JakartaEE specs to the rescue

Why Jakarta EE shines in the era of AI
AI code generation is changing everything, and not always for the better. Every developer now has a tireless coding assistant that can produce hundreds of lines of Java in seconds. But code is cheap, software isn't. AI generates what you describe, and if your description is vague, ad hoc, or tied to a specific framework version, the result will be too. In the enterprise, code written today must still be maintainable in five, ten, or fifteen years...by people who may not have been part of writing it. Framework lock-in, abandoned libraries, and undocumented conventions are already hard enough to manage without AI accelerating the problem. But when you give AI a specification-based contract like Jakarta EE, the generated code is portable, standardised, and guaranteed to have a support path for the foreseeable future. We will build a complete Jakarta EE 11 application, live, one spec at a time, entirely with AI assistance, to prove the point.

About the Speaker
Gerrit Grunwald
Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer that loves coding for around 40 years already. He is a true believer in open source and he is an active member of the Java community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany), he is a JavaOne rockstar, Java Champion and IBM Champion. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.

About the Sponsor
Certara (https://www.certara.com)
Certara accelerates medicines to patients, using biosimulation (modeling and simulation) and technology-enabled services to transform drug discovery and development. Our integrated and proprietary end-to-end platform with generative AI technology, biosimulation, regulatory science, and market access solutions combined with our global 1,400+ strong team of scientists and experts enable informed decision-making, higher R&D productivity, and improved patient outcomes.