Overview
Kito, Daniel, and Ian are joined by #JavaChampions and OmniFish co-founders Arjan Tijms and Ondro Mihalyi for an insightful conversation on #JakartaEE, enterprise #Java, open source collaboration, and the future of specifications. Along the way they discuss #Oracle layoffs, #AI, #MCP, #OmniHai, #Quarkus, #WildFly, #Spring, #AngularSignals, and the trends enterprise developers should be watching.
About Arjan Tijms
Title: Director / software engineer
Bio: Arjan Tijms is the co-founder of Jakarta EE support company OmniFish, and is currently project lead for a number of Jakarta projects including Jakarta- Security, Authentication, Authorization, Faces and Expression Language. He is the co-creator of the popular OmniFaces library for JSF that was a 2015 Duke’s Choice Award winner, and is the author of three books on Jakarta EE. He has been active as an EG member under the JCP for JSF (JSR 372) and Security API (JSR 375), and has participated as a member in the Jakarta EE Steering and Specification committees.
LinkedIN: https://linkedin.com/in/arjantijms
Book(s):
- Pro CDI 2 in Java EE 8
- The Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8
- The Definitive Guide to Security in Jakarta EE: Securing Java-based Enterprise Applications with Jakarta Security, Authorization, Authentication and More
About Ondro Mihályi
Title: Director / software engineer at OmniFish
Bio: Ondro is a Java Champion, leader of CZJUG, the Czech Java User Group, and a conference speaker. He is an active contributor to the Jakarta EE community and its specifications. He co-founded OmniFish, the company behind the development of Eclipse GlassFish
LinkedIN: https://cz.linkedin.com/in/mihalyiondrej :
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ondromih.bsky.social
Other: https://twitter.com/OndroMih
Book(s): Java EE Microservices
News
Industry News
- Oracle Lays Off 30,000 As AI Spending Surges
- Tech Layoffs in 2026: 96,000 total layoffs
- Perspective: James Gosling – AWS outage due to AI “disastrously shortsighted”
- Why Switzerland is rethinking its reliance on Microsoft and proprietary systems | News.az,
- France phases out proprietary operating systems on workstations. | Interoperable Europe Portal,
- https://global-ai-watch.com/article/e09b7ce5-580a-4cd0-a514-64d98696f57a – Germany, France and Switzerland moving or planning to move from proprietary US-based solutions like MS Office to open source solutions backed by european companies
Frontend
Server Side Java
- New CDI implementation upcoming from us: omnifaces/hypospray – A Modular DI framework for Java
- SpringBoot 4.1 coming in June, also means SpringBoot 3 community support end of life
- MicroProfile LRA (Pattern: Saga )
AI/ML
- Announcing Version 1.0 – A2A Protocol
- Anthropic releases Opus 4.7
- Anthropic postmortem on Claude performance degradation
- Spring AI 2.0.0-M4 Released
- JProfiler MCP
- Apple MLX Framework
Security
Picks
- Ondro:
- JDWP MCP server: https://github.com/FgForrest/mcp-jdwp-java – gives AI agents ability to directly debug Java apps, place breakpoints, introspect variables, etc
- Javadoc MCP: https://www.javadocs.dev/
- OmniHai – API to interact with multiple AI providers, created by Bauke Sholtz
- Arjan:
- omnifaces/hypospray – A Modular DI framework for Java – new CDI implementation
- AI 4 Java (KM)
- SkillsJars (KM)
- SpeakerTrax (KM)
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Events
- Devoxx UK, London, UK, May 6 – 7, 2026
- Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium, Madison, WI, USA – May 28 – 29, 2026
- Twin Cities Software Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA – June 4 – 5, 2026
- DevBCN, Barcelona, Spain, June 16 – 17, 2026
- Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA – June 25 – 26, 2026
- Pacific Northwest Software Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA – August 13 – 14, 2026
- Central Iowa Software Symposium, Des Moines, IA, USA – September 17 – 18, 2026
- JavaZone, Lillestrøm, Norway – September 2 – 3, 2026
- Northern Virginia Software Symposium, Reston, VA, USA – September 24 – 25, 2026
- dev2Next, Lone Tree, CO, USA – October 12 – 15, 2026