Ivar Grimstad
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Norwegian Java Champion and JUG Leader 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 in the JCP Executive Committee.
Ivar is a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.
Sessions Montréal 2026
The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java
Session en Anglais - Débutant
Over the last 30 years, Java has been the preferred technology for developing enterprise applications. Frameworks and approaches such as J2EE, Spring Framework, Java EE, Spring Boot, and Jakarta EE all contribute to this success story.
This session will give you a history lesson of Enterprise Java and an overview of 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.
What Every Spring Developer Should Know About Jakarta EE
Session en Anglais - Intermédiaire
Spring Framework and Spring Boot build on a surprisingly large set of Jakarta EE APIs and implementations. This means that it is a great advantage for a Spring developer to be aware of what is going on with the development of Jakarta EE.
Come to this session to learn about the planned changes to the technologies that Spring depends on. There will be demos, and even some AI involved.
Sessions Montréal 2024
- Jakarta EE 11 - Performance and Developer Productivity
- Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 with Java 21 and Jakarta EE
Sessions Montréal 2023
- How to Be a Responsible Open Source Citizen
- Jakarta EE 10 - Simplicity for Modern and Lighweight Cloud
