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JCON Europe 2025 was great! Period! It is such a flawlessly organized conference with an ever present community spirit. This year was maybe even more special than usual because of the 30 Years of Java celebrations. Eclipse Foundation had a booth where we featured the Jakarta EE, Adoptium, and Eclipse...

On 27 May, Open Regulatory Compliance is hosting a panel, “ The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know ,” which will be live-streamed by GitHub as part of Maintainer Month. Maintainer Month is a month dedicated for open source maintainers to gather and share...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This Monday I hosted Javaforum Malmö where we got an interesting presentation by Artur Skowroński about AI in the context of the JVM as he was passing by Malmö on his way to Devoxx UK. If you are a...

The second event of Javaforum Malmø took place this Monday. We were fortunate enough to have Artur Skowroński visit us and talk about JVM in the Age of AI. Those present experienced a fast-paced presentation that gave a complete overview of all the different projects and initiatives going on to...

The rise of AI is redefining the development tools landscape, fast. It’s no longer just better code navigation or debuggers. Today, IDEs are becoming intelligent assistants, with AI at their core. But with this shift comes new tension: control, ownership, and freedom in developer tools are being challenged in ways...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The service outage is more than just your regular neighborhood outage. It seems to be a massive breakdown of a storage cluster that is a central piece on which all the Jenkins CI instances depend. The Jakarta EE TCK...

We’re pleased to share that, following active community discussions and collaboration, we have submitted feedback to the European Commission on the Definition of Important and Critical Product Categories . This contribution reflects our collective understanding of how the CRA definitions intersect with open source development and distribution. Thank you to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was in Bangalore speaking at GIDS. Read all about it in my write-up from the event. I now have a couple of weeks at home before my conferences in May, which will be JCON Europe, followed...

This was my sixth time speaking at GIDS! My first time was in 2016, so I have only missed out on a few editions during the last 10 years. It is a great conference, with a very engaged audience, so I am happy to be a regular speaker there. The...

Perforce Software, in partnership with the Eclipse Foundation, has released the findings of the 2025 State of Automotive Software Development Survey. The report provides key insights into the current practices and emerging trends within the automotive software industry, including the use of open source software. The survey, conducted in Q4...