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The Eclipse Foundation is excited to announce the formation of the Eclipse Cloud Interest Group, aimed at empowering cloud providers, users, and industry vendors to independently build, manage, and operate cloud services, promoting freedom from vendor lock-in, interoperability, and resilience across diverse cloud environments. Why This Matters In today’s digital...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here’s some good news! The Jakarta NoSQL project is ready to release version 1.0 of the specification. At the moment, they are putting together the last bits and pieces of the material required for the release review by the...

Open source technologies have a unique ability to connect people, transcend boundaries, and foster learning. This is exemplified by the collaboration between Ugandan developers Tayebwa Noah and Jessie Ssebuliba, and Germany-based Hendrik Ebbers, CEO of Open Elements , Eclipse Committer, and a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors...

It has been a goal for a very long time to have at least one Javaforum Malmö event each quarter of the year. We didn’t manage that last year, but hopefully 2025 is the year when we are back on track. It certainly started well with more than twenty people...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The latest news about the refactoring of the TCK for Jakarta EE 11 is that the team is getting closer to releasing Jakarta EE Web Profile 11. There are just a small number of tests remaining to be refactored...

TheiaCon 2024, 4Q Contributor Award to TypeFox, EclipseCon 2024 Recordings, Open Collaboration Tools, and Theia AI!

On November 21, 2023, Microsoft announced that it was contributing Azure RTOS to the Eclipse Foundation, which gave birth to the Eclipse ThreadX project. Since then, the project team and Eclipse Foundation staff have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to transition ThreadX to a true community-driven open source project...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 was released in December. You can check out all the details on the updated Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 specification page. The next out will be Jakarta EE Web Profile 11, which will be...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025, with more to come. I hope you enjoy these weekly updates of what’s happening in the community in general, and Jakarta EE in particular. Most of us are...

It has become my tradition to summarize the conference year in a post on New Year’s Eve. If 2023 was a good conference year, then 2024 was even better! I spoke at or participated in more than 40 events across the World. I traveled to 31 different countries and visited...