Ivar Grimstad

Ivar Grimstad

Jakarta EE Developer Advocate & Java Champion at Eclipse Foundation

Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden.
Besides advocating the Jakarta EE technologies, Ivar is contributing to the Jakarta EE specifications as well as being the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). He is also one of the specification leads for Jakarta MVC and represents Eclipse Foundation on the JCP Executive Committee.
Ivar is also involved in various other open-source projects and communities. He is a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.

Agenda Talks


Java Con

11:40 to 12:25
06 Nov 2024

Why Jakarta EE Matters to Spring - and Vice Versa

Jakarta EE 9 changed its package namespace from `javax.*` to `jakarta.*`. This may sound like a trivial change that mostly affects Jakarta EE. So, why should Spring developers care?

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