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Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer break from the weekly Platform Calls. The calls will resume on...

Closed, proprietary AI stacks are reshaping developer tools: often at the expense of transparency, portability, and control. Eclipse Theia takes a different route: a fully open, extensible platform you can inspect, adapt, and deploy on your own terms, whether on the desktop or in the cloud. With Theia, you own...

The Adoptium Summit , a free half-day virtual event happening on 1 October 2025 , will bring together developers, users, and ecosystem stakeholders from around the world to explore the latest innovations in Java and showcase practical real-world use cases powered by Adoptium technologies. This year’s Summit will focus on...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are winding down for summer break. The platform project has decided to skip the next three weekly calls. The next call will be on August 26. The plan for Jakarta EE 12 is shaping up, and we will...

Where we stand: a snapshot of Oniro’s first half of 2025 The first half of 2025 has been a period of foundational strengthening for the Oniro Working Group . We're not just building an operating system kit; we're crafting the tools that will redefine how devices interact, empowering developers to...

As we dive into the summer months, we’re combining our June and July updates into a single post, because June was packed. In June alone, we contributed to the EU’s draft guidance on open source hardware , submitted detailed comments on the CEN/CENELEC PT 1 Standard , and provided feedback...

🗓️ Save the date! Join us at the Oniro workshop in Florence! Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate! Oniro will be hosting a workshop at the OpenHarmony Technical Conference in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹, on September 3rd, 2025! A unique opportunity to dive deep into the world of Oniro, the...

When organizations plan to build a new tool or IDE today, AI integration is almost always a key requirement from day one. The success of GitHub #Copilot in #VSCode has naturally created a strong desire to offer similar experiences, such as code completion, terminal help, commit message generation, and AI...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It feels like this summer just came and went without me even noticing. I can’t believe this is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE in July! Luckily, the summer continues throughout August. I will then attend JCrete, which has become...

📦Can’t Download VSIX Files from the VS Code Marketplace Anymore? Here’s What You Can Do If you've tried to manually download a .vsix file from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace recently, you may have noticed something missing: the download button is gone . Microsoft quietly removed the ability to download...