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A major milestone was achieved yesterday! The GlassFish code from Oracle made its home in the Eclipse Foundation's Git repositories ( https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/glassfish), starting a new era of Eclipse GlassFish. This is another step in making Jakarta EE a vehicle for innovation in cloud-native application development. The Eclipse GlassFish application server...

The Eclipse Architecture Council is in the process of making a change to how the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines the Reviews that Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in. Foremost on our minds is the nature of Release Reviews which the EDP current requires ahead of all...

What is the value of the code contributed by the Eclipse community? Inspired by a 2015 Linux Foundation study of the value of open source collaboration, we estimate that the roughly 162 million total physical source lines of code in Eclipse repositories represent an $8.7 billion USD shared technology investment...

Spoiler alert: 162 million! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code. But beyond this number, let’s look...

The Eclipse Foundation is joining forces with IBM and other leading organizations in the Call for Code initiative to promote the development of open source solutions to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The Foundation is proud to support tackling one of the world’s greatest challenges through the creation of...

In my previous blog post, we announced a new look and feel for the Eclipse Foundation website. The plan was to roll out our new design to eclipse.org first and then gradually migrate our other web properties. Since then, we migrated our Hugo theme, Eclipsepedia, Eclipse Community Forums and a...

Back in April, our Executive Director Mike Milinkovich blogged about a new logo and redesigned website for the Eclipse Foundation. Our new branding is meant to reflect the Foundation’s role beyond the Eclipse IDE. We are proud of our heritage and successfully launched the Eclipse Photon release recently to a...

The Eclipse Marketplace Client, Photon edition has a bug where it fails to open in certain cases. If nothing happens when you try to access the Eclipse Marketplace via “Help > Eclipse Marketplace”, please update the Marketplace Client plug-in by doing the following: Go to Help > Install New Software...

These are exciting times for the Java community! EclipseCon France (ECF) 2018, the first ECF since Oracle contributed Java EE to Eclipse Foundation, surely reflected that. The Jakarta EE brand, now firmly accepted by the community, received heightened visibility at ECF via a track dedicated to Jakarta EE and related...

The Eclipse Photon release is here and available for download! Join over 4 million active users of the Eclipse IDE and take your coding to the next level with Eclipse Photon. The thirteenth annual simultaneous release of Eclipse projects is a huge accomplishment made possible by the tireless efforts of...