Oracle announced today that they, along with IBM and Red Hat, will be moving Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. I would like to welcome everyone involved to our community. We look forward to working with all of the participants in the Java EE ecosystem as it moves to a...
There was lots of news in the land of Java yesterday. If you have not already seen the posts by Mark Reinhold and Donald Smith of Oracle, I encourage you to read: Moving Java Forward Faster Accelerating the JDK release cadence Faster and Easier Use and Redistribution of Java SE...
This is the last week Kat Hirsch, the Eclipse Foundation marketing specialist, will be with the Foundation. Kat is moving on to a new opportunity and the next step in her marketing career. We have been lucky to have Kat at the Foundation and we will certainly miss her dedication...
Once again we are hosting an Eclipse IoT Day in London on September 11. Like last year, we are co-locating with the awesome Thingmonk event, one of my favourite IoT events of the year. Thingmonk brings together some of the best thinkers in IoT so it is always a great...
For many open source organisations, open means the same thing as transparent: open as in open book. At the Eclipse Foundation, we regard being transparent as the practice of making sure that the community can see and understand what the project is doing; and being open as the act of...
If you’re new to the Eclipse IDE you’re already a big fan, you’ll find something of value every day by following @EclipseJavaIDE. Frankly, there’s so much good stuff coming out of this account, that it’s hard to pick any favourites. So, I’ve pulled out a couple of recent ones. Menu...
The Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy defines two types of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The so-called Type A Due Diligence is concerned exclusively with license certification; and Type B Due Diligence is concerned with license certification, provenance checking and a deep dive scan of the content...
Key takeaways: Do you want to see a Chromium based SWT Browser implementation? Please donate (or reach out to me if you want to do corporate donations) and the Eclipse Foundation will make it happens via the Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program (FEEP). Browser support in SWT has always been...
This week, the Eclipse Newsletter features 8 articles about LSP! What is LSP? It stands for the Language Server Protocol. A new protocol that aims at minimizing the adversity IDE developers and language developers face all the time. The LSP developed by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code, […] is a...
It is hard to believe the Eclipse IoT Working Group was launch over 5 years ago on November 1, 2011, at the time we called it Eclipse M2M. A lot has changed over these 5 years, including the name, and the IoT industry has matured to be one of the...