Blog Posts

For the past three years, we have been partnering with a number of organizations – IEEE, Open Mobile Alliance and Agile-IoT – to get a sense of the general trends in the IoT industry through an online survey. The fourth edition of this survey ends on March 5th, and I...

We are happy to announce that the new name for the technology formerly known as Java EE is….[insert drumroll]… Jakarta EE . Almost 7,000 people voted in our community poll, and over 64% voted in favour of Jakarta EE. Thanks to everyone who voted, blogged , or tweeted! This has...

In the world of open source, Committers are ones who hold they keys. Committers decide what code goes into the code base, they decide how a project builds, and they ultimately decide what gets delivered to the adopter community. With awesome power, comes awesome responsibility, and so it’s no mistake...

As part of our continuing adventures in migrating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation I am pleased to announce that the draft of the EE.next Working Group charter has now been posted for community review. Comments and feedback are welcomed on the ee4j-community@eclipse.org mail list. But please please pretty please...

The term Intellectual Property (IP) refers to any sort of creative work, be it literature, art, or software. In the realm of open source software, artifacts like source code, documentation, and images are considered intellectual property. Unless otherwise stated, intellectual property is the property of its creator, who may grant...

The fourth IoT Developer Survey is now open and ready to receive your responses! It’s a great resource to find out what’s going on in the world of IoT and to watch it change year to year. Dear IoT enthusiasts, please take 10 minutes to complete the survey all the...

Eclipse IoT Day is coming to the Bay Area on May 14, 2018, and I really hope you will be joining us! We have opened a Call for Papers that will end on Feb 15th – so you have about 3 weeks to submit your talk! If you are considering...

This is my last day at the Eclipse Foundation. If you missed my earlier post, I have resigned from the Foundation and am starting to look for new opportunities. Thank you to everyone in the Eclipse community for making my time with the Foundation an amazing experience. It is the...

There is a lot going on as Java EE continues its migration to the Eclipse Foundation. Since there are so many parallel threads, I thought it would be a good idea to recap where we are, and what is coming up in the next few weeks. First off, we are...

As 2018 begins I would like to share a few thoughts on where I think the Eclipse community is heading. I am looking forward to an incredibly busy year for myself, the staff of the Eclipse Foundation, and our community, because this is going to be a year of tremendous...