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Likely voting roster (12)

Martin Kulldorff, PhD — Biostatistician; co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration; long-time critic of COVID mandates; chaired parts of the reconstituted ACIP this summer. Tends skeptical of broad COVID recommendations. Science +1

Retsef Levi, PhD — MIT professor; has publicly questioned mRNA vaccine safety; recently tapped to lead ACIP’s COVID workgroup review. Likely to favor narrower use. BioSpace

Robert W. Malone, MD — Physician who has repeatedly criticized mRNA COVID vaccines; now on the roster. Likely to oppose broad uptake.

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A2A vs MCP in Agentic AI

✅ Clarification

• A2A refers to Agent-to-Agent communication in multi-agent systems.
• MCP refers to the Model Context Protocol, not Master Control Program.

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🔁 A2A vs 🧠 MCP (Model Context Protocol)

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Bingo

See

• student employee
• ✅️ staff employee
• ✅️ math faculty
• Floridian
• didjeridu
• ✅️ boobies

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Mermaid Graph Direction Cheat Sheet

Mermaid diagrams support different flow directions using the graph keyword followed by a direction specifier.

📌 Supported Directions

Keyword	Meaning	Layout Direction
TD	Top Down	Nodes flow Top → Down (default)

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Title: What's up with open standard enterprise Java and AI?

What's Up with Open Standard Enterprise Java and AI?

Enterprise Java has always been about standards—about providing a foundation that's stable, interoperable, and vendor-neutral. If you've been around since the days of Servlets, EJBs, and JPA, you know that Jakarta EE's approach is to standardize what's proven, not chase every shiny new thing. That's why mission-critical systems still rely on Jakarta EE's backbone, and why customers look to the platform for direction and leadership. The Eclipse Foundation's stewardship and open process help to reinforce this.

Jakarta EE is a standard, and standards are for standardizing.

There is a lot going on related to AI in open and proprietary enterprise Java standards.

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Greetings programs,

With the Jakarta EE 11 release review ballot safely underway, it is time to conduct a retrospective. We will use the Tuesday 24 June 2025 11:00 - 12:00 EDT occurrence for this purpose.

Even if you don't normally attend these meetings, please consider attending this one.

https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/82720968518?pwd=XQLunKYMRJFSbNtgouPG5TcNTwEafa.1

In the next week, ask yourself some questions about your participation in Jakarta EE.

• What might have prompted you to be more involved?

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At the 2025-04-29 Platform call, this proposal was declared dead-on-arrival.

Background for making the request

• An important set of EE 11 TCK tests are currently failing: the subset of the Connectors specification relating to the use of Servlet and JSP with Connectors. For discussion: ConnectorServletJsp [tck-2183]
• The cause of the failure has been determined to not be in the EE 11 TCK.
  • The same set of tests when run with GlassFish 7 do not fail.
• Therefore, we assert the failure is an implementation bug in GlassFish 8.0-JDK17.

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A CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) Portable Extension is a feature in CDI that allows developers to extend the CDI container's functionality in a portable, container-independent way. Portable extensions can leverage the CDI SPI (Service Provider Interface) to interact with the CDI container at various lifecycle events such as initialization, shutdown, and during the processing of beans.

Key characteristics of CDI Portable Extensions:

• Portability: They are designed to work across different CDI implementations and containers.
• Integration: They can interact with the CDI container lifecycle and modify the behavior of the CDI environment.
• Customization: They allow adding custom behavior, such as registering new beans, interceptors, decorators, and observers.

In contrast, a non-portable CDI extension would typically be specific to a particular CDI implementation or container and may use non-standard APIs, making it less portable and reusable across different environments.

Summary:

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Ed Burns iJUG Tournee Rund um JavaLand 2025

Ich habe alle euer JUG Städte aufs eine Google Map inkludiert.

Städte ohne Terminvorschlag

1. Bonn

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Liebe JUG Leader,

Ed Burns hat mich gebeten euch auf seine JUG-Tour im Frühjahr aufmerksam zu machen. Wie in den vergangenen Jahren wird er an der JavaLand teilnehmen, d.h. er ist von Mitte März bis Mitte April in Deutschland und würde sich über zahlreiche Besuche bei unseren User Groups freuen. Er hat folgende Themen im Repertoire:

• KI
  • Java und KI mit LangChain4J - insbesondere mit JakartaEE oder MicroProfile.
  • KI unterstützte Java Migration
• Azure