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Foundation of the openMobility Working Group

Monday, May 13, 2019 - 00:00 by Shanda Giacomoni

We are very happy to official announce the foundation of the openMobility Working Group with the founding partners: BOSCH, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Fraunhofer FOKUS and Vector Informatik.

On the first day of the SUMO User Conference 2019, Monday May 13, we will officially announce the foundation of the working group. The official announcement is followed by the first working group meeting with the partners.

Jakarta EE has landed

Friday, May 3, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
The Jakarta EE platform has finished moving into its new home at the Eclipse Foundation after a year of significant effort to contribute, build, and test the Java EE technologies in a new community.

MicroProfile and Jakarta EE -- The Lightweight Stuff Session

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
An itkonekt session for building a MicroProfile / Java EE application from scratch. Metrics, OpenAPI, FaultTolerance, Configuration, multi-server deployments, ThinWARs, and even reactive (easter) eggs included:

MicroProfile JWT with Keycloak

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
In this tutorial, we will learn how to secure our services using MicroProfile JWT and Keycloak. Go to https://www.keycloak.org/downloads.html and download latest Standalone server distribution.

New Survey of More Than 1,700 IoT Developers Reveals Top Hardware, Software “Stack” Choices

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 00:00 by Shanda Giacomoni
The 2019 IoT Developer Survey Results are live. IoT developers are driving real commercial outcomes, survey results show two-thirds of respondents are working on IoT projects professionally. 38% of the users cited security as particularly challenging for IoT development, followed by connectivity, data collection and analysis, performance, privacy, and standards. See the full results here.

What’s in a Name?

Sunday, April 7, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
As Wayne Beaton wrote about in his blog Renaming Java EE Specifications for Jakarta EE, the process of renaming the Java EE specifications as a part of the path towards Jakarta EE 8 has started.

Adopting Jakarta EE

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
Jakarta EE’s official launch is here! Have you made the switch? In this article, Edwin Derks explores three of the most common reasons why some developers haven’t moved on over and explains why Jakarta EE is worth the effort.

Jakarta EE 9: 2019 Outlook

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 00:00 by Graeham Hui
As Java EE moves into the Eclipse Foundation, it’s important to keep an eye on various milestones along the way. Today, Arjan Tijms of Payara explains how the transfer is going and explores some of the proposals for future EE releases.

Jakarta EE 8 Status

Monday, March 18, 2019 - 11:00 by Graeham Hui
Those of you following Jakarta EE probably know that the upcoming Jakarta EE 8 release will be functionally equivalent to Java EE 8. The reason for this is that we want to prove that the transfer from Oracle is complete and that we are able to produce the processes, specifications, test suites and a compatible implementation through the Eclipse Foundation.

Using Jakarta EE/MicroProfile to Connect to Apache Kafka: Part 1 — Hello World

Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 10:00 by Graeham Hui
Apache Kafka is a community-distributed streaming platform that has three key capabilities: publish and subscribe to streams of records, store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way, and then process streams as they occur. Apache Kafka has several success cases in the Java world. This post will cover how to benefit from this powerful tool in the Jakarta EE/MicroProfile universe.