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TL;DR – Get Engaged! What We’re Announcing Every once in a while, a new open source initiative comes along which is truly an industry changing event. Today, Microsoft announced that Azure RTOS, including all of its components, is going to be made available as the Eclipse ThreadX open source project...

The results of the 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are now available! For the sixth year in a row, we’ve reached out to the enterprise Java community to ask about their preferences and priorities for cloud native Java architectures, technologies, and tools, their perceptions of the cloud native application industry...

It’s that time of year again when we ask you to take a moment to participate in the annual Jakarta EE Developer Survey.

In my previous two blog posts I discussed concerns with the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) which we believe will harm both the open source community and the innovation economy in Europe. But the CRA needs to be understood as part of a larger legislative framework. In this post we...

In my previous blog post on the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), I touched on a topic which I feel warrants additional discussion. Specifically:  Fundamentally, the core of the proposed legislation is to extend the CE Mark regime to all products with digital elements sold in Europe. Our assumption based...

Europe has proposed new legislation intended to improve the state of cybersecurity for software and hardware products made available in Europe. The Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) will mandate that all manufacturers take security into account across both their development processes and the lifecycle of their products once in the hands...

As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our contributors, committers, members, and the Eclipse Foundation team for your commitment, passion, professionalism, persistence, and tremendous contributions to our community’s success.  This year included a number of accomplishments and milestones in the Eclipse community...

2022 has been a fantastic year for the Eclipse Foundation. We’ve managed to grow all aspects of our organization, due in no small part to the ongoing proliferation of open source across industries worldwide. Perhaps no one Working Group exemplifies our efforts in 2022 more than the Eclipse Software Defined...

The results of the 2022 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are very telling about the current state of the enterprise Java developer community. They point to increased confidence about Jakarta EE and highlight how far Jakarta EE has grown over the past few years. Strong Turnout Helps Drive Future of Jakarta...

Jakarta EE, a Working Group hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, released Jakarta EE 10 today.  This achievement was only possible because of a global community of contributors. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who played a part in this release.  There are many new and innovative features added by the...