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# The Evolution of Enterprise Java with Jakarta EE 11 and Beyond


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 4
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** design patterns, java

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1562-the-evolution-of-enterprise-java-with-jakarta-ee-11-and-beyond)

## Description

Jakarta EE 11 has just been released with lots of features for increasing performance and developer productivity, such as support for virtual threads and the new Jakarta Data specification. With this release, Jakarta EE has established a predictable release cadence and the work with Jakarta EE 12 has already started.

This session will give you an overview of everything brought to you by Jakarta EE 11 with lots of code demos. We will also look forward and check out what's in the pipeline for Jakarta EE 12.

## Speaker

### [Ivar Grimstad](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ivar-grimstad)

Jakarta EE Developer Advocate


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- [Like Spring, but Faster: The new Java Jedi](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/563-like-spring-but) — Eric Deandrea
- [Backstage Software Templates for Java Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/587-backstage-software) — Markus Eisele
- [High performance Serverless Java on AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/623-high-performance) — Vadym Kazulkin