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I am very pleased to announce that the first nine project proposals for the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) top-level project have been formally published for community review. This is the first step to making the migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation a reality. The process of migrating...

This blog post is based on the text of Eclipse EE4J’s very first GitHub Issue. Please join the conversation over there! We need a new brand name for the set of specifications that will be created by the new community process. This brand name will also become a certification mark...

The Eclipse Foundation is planning on removing a few deprecated components from eclipse.org-common in an effort to reduce our code base for www.eclipse.org. We are using Bug 526827 - Fall clean up of eclipse.org-common to track the following tasks: Bug 468336 - Remove support for the Nova theme in eclipse.org-common...

There are only a couple weeks left (deadline is Nov. 13) for entering the fourth edition of our Open IoT Challenge! The Open IoT Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the Internet of Things using open standards and open source technology. You probably remember last...

Last week, the Eclipse IoT community was pretty busy at EclipseCon Europe. We were having our largest Eclipse event of the year, and it featured lots of IoT. After a much needed weekend break to recover from an incredibly fruitful week, I am taking some time to write down some...

This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was recently published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is easy. All you have...

A key industry that is driving the Internet of Things is Manufacturing. Companies are always looking to make their manufacturing process more efficient, flexible and improve quality, while lowering costs. Therefore, modernizing factory floors and integrating factory equipment with the enterprise IT systems is of interest to many manufacturing companies...

In 2016, we introduced the notion of license certification intellectual property (IP) due diligence (“Type A”) into the Eclipse IP Policy with a goal in mind to automate the certification process. At that time, we started a process of evaluating tools that could be used for automatic validation and eventually...

Late last week, I pushed out an update to our documentation regarding the legal documentation requirements for Eclipse projects that Sharon Corbett and I have been working on over the past quarter. In the process, we moved the guidelines off of the main website and rolled them in to the...

By now you are probably pretty aware that EclipseCon Europe, coming in just a few weeks in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Oct 22-25, will feature All Things IoT! But wait, there’s more! We will use the opportunity of having a lot of people from the Eclipse IoT community in the same location...