Blog Posts

    Election time for Jakarta EE Working Group Committees!

    by Tatjana Obradovic

    The Jakarta EE Working Group charter identifies three key committees to drive the various facets of the working group for which there are elected positions to be filled: the Steering Committee, the Specification Committee, and the Marketing and Brand Committee. The elected positions are to represent each of the Enterprise...

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    ECE 2019: CFP Now Open!

    by Thabang Mashologu

    EclipseCon Europe is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies, share best practices, and more. Taking in place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 21-24, 2019, ECE 2019 is our biggest event of the year and connects the Eclipse ecosystem and the industry’s...

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    Cloud Native Java Innovation at the Eclipse Foundation

    by Thabang Mashologu

    The world’s leading innovators in Java, including Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Payara, Red Hat, and Tomitribe, are collaborating at the Eclipse Foundation to advance enterprise Java technologies to support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile offer a path for migrating Java EE legacy...

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    Update for Jakarta EE community: May 2019

    by Tatjana Obradovic

    The Jakarta EE community is the driving force behind the future of cloud-native Java. Active participation represents the best way to drive the vendor-neutral and rapid innovation necessary to modernize enterprise systems for cloud use cases. That said, we’d like to make sure that the community is kept up-to-speed with...

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    Frequently Asked Questions About Jakarta EE 8

    by Mike Milinkovich

    I’d like to thank the community for the level of engagement we’ve seen in response to my post from last week. This post, which again represents the consensus view of the Jakarta EE Steering Committee, answers some questions about Jakarta EE 8, which is planned as the initial release of...

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    Eclipse Contributor Agreement 3.0

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) is an agreement made by contributors certifying the work they are contributing was authored by them and/or they have the legal authority to contribute as open source under the terms of the project license. The Eclipse Foundation’s IP Team has been working hard to get...

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    Update on Jakarta EE Rights to Java Trademarks

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Summary of progress to date and implications of the agreement between Eclipse and Oracle on Jakarta EE and use of Java trademarks and the javax namespace. Introduction The migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation has been an enormous effort on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation staff and the...

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    Jakarta EE Community Engagement

    by Tatjana Obradovic

    The intention of the blog is to list all the ways we currently (May 2019) engage with the community. Social media Jakarta EE on social media Twitter: @JakartaEE Facebook: Jakarta EE LinkedIn Group: Jakarta.EE Mailing lists Subscribe to our mailing-lists https://jakarta.ee/connect/ jakarta.ee-community@eclipse.org jakarta.ee-wg@eclipse.org Note: people involved in a specific project...

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    Eclipse Foundation on the move!

    by Mike Milinkovich

    After 15 years at 102 Centrepointe Drive in Ottawa, the Eclipse Foundation is on the move. We will now be located at 2934 Baseline Road, Suite 202, Ottawa, ON, K2H 1B2. Back in 2004, when we took the space current space on Centrepointe, there were only three of us on...

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