Category Archives: Politics

Thanks for 111.000+ views!

Posted on 12. May 2019 by Markus Karg

Thanks to all the nearly 100.000 readers of my last blog posting for the more than 111.000 views in one week! It seems I am not the only one caring about Java EE! This proofs that Java is everything but … Continue reading →

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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle killed Java EE.

Posted on 3. May 2019 by Markus Karg

Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracle announced that Java EE will be open sourced to that organization and it would … Continue reading →

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I am very proud to announce that I just pressed the button: JAX-RS 2.1.1 was released by the committers of the Eclipse Project for JAX-RS and now is available on Maven Central. While this is just a collection of small … Continue reading →

Posted on 9. September 2018 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on JAX-RS 2.1.1 Available on Maven Central

Come to Ludwigsburg / Germany if you are interesting in my co-talk with Kevin Sutter (IBM) about JAX-RS and Jakarta EE under the auspieces of the Eclipse Foundation.

Posted on 31. July 2018 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on EclipseCon Europe 2018: I’m Speaking!

jax-rs@Eclipse @ Java Forum Stuttgart 2018

Posted on 23. April 2018 by Markus Karg

As part of the first batch, Oracle provided JAX-RS to the Eclipse Foundation. And now? What  happened since then? What will come in future? Is Oracle bailing out? Who chimed in? And when will there be JAX-RS 2.2 or 3.0? … Continue reading →

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Microsoft joins Jakarta EE working group

Posted on 23. April 2018 by Markus Karg

Today Bruno Borges, Principal Developer Advocate for Java at Microsoft, announced that his company likes to join the Jakarta EE working group. Why this is worth a note? Because Jakarta EE is the new trade name of the industrial standard … Continue reading →

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The Java One Conference does not exist anymore. As Oracle’s Steven Chin announced recently, Oracle replaced the Java-centric conference by another one better covering Oracle’s technological portfolio, named “Oracle Code”. It embraces many other technologies. Or in other words: It … Continue reading →

Posted on 21. April 2018 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on Farewell, Java One.

Contribute to EE4J: Meet me @ Javaland

Posted on 11. March 2018 by Markus Karg

As you might have heared, the technology formerly known as Java EE, developed by the JCP, meanwhile is developed by the Eclipse Foundation’s EE4J Community under the name Jakarta EE. It is completely open source, and can be forked on … Continue reading →

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Just back from #ECon2017’s EE4J BoF: Slightly optimistic now. Let’s see if Oracle keeps word.

Posted on 24. October 2017 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on EE4J BoF @ #ECon2017: Slightly Optimistic

Today I am attending #ECon2017 in Ludwigsburg / Germany to meet PMC members of EE4J. Let’s see what they tell us about the relationship between JCP (Standards Body) and EF (RI/TCK vendor).

Posted on 24. October 2017 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on Headcrashing @ #ECon2017