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AI Tools in the EU, JDK 26, MCP, airails.dev, Zeeds--Questions for the 143rd airhacks.tv 📎

Questions and topics for the 2026.02/143rd edition of airhacks.tv:
  1. AI tools in software development: European companies' fear of AI solutions vs. the rest of the world -- will the EU fall further behind?
  2. Upcoming JDK 26 features worth waiting for
  3. Number of Java "shorts" tools in daily use
  4. MCP server for Maven Central repository
  5. airails.dev announcement
  6. Zero Dependency Java Seeds announcement: github.com/adambien/zeeds
  7. Time machine: 100 episodes back (43rd episode):
    JavaONE 2017 News: keynotes, impressions, EE4J, project FN, Dynamic JMS listeners, SSO, timeout and JWT, Serverside rendering vs JavaScript UI, openJDK vs. Oracle JDK in Docker, User properties and Keycloak, Testing JAX-RS with Keycloak, 2 EARs one EJB jar problem, Java EE and logging, JSF conversations with architects, Java EE versioning strategies, User-friendly URIs in MVC / Ozark, Optimistic and pessimistic locking, Ideas for overengineering Pet Projects, WildFly Datasource configuration in Docker, @RequestScope with @Suspended, Implementing a batch job, POJO and JsonObject serialization in Java EE, Qualifier instantiation in Java EE, JPA-level security, bind vs. self / this in JavaScript

Any questions left? Ask now: gist.github.com/AdamBien/0ca87bbd4b765764c5de295fc34ac6b6 and get the answers at the next airhacks.tv. Some questions are also answered with a short video: 60 seconds or less with Java

Ask questions during the show via twitter mentioning me: https://twitter.com/AdamBien (@AdamBien),using the hashtag: #airhacks or built-in chat at: airhacks.tv. You can join the Q&A session live each first Monday of month, 8 P.M at airhacks.tv