Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I toured South America on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025. I visited Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Even if it is not my usual Java crows, It is great to visit the communities on these tours...
My second and last stop on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025 was São Paulo. This event, GUOB Tech Day 2025 was organised by the Brazilian Oracle User Group ( GUOB) and about 300 attendees showed up. I presented a talk titled The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java as...
This is the second time I am participating in the LAOUC Community Tour. My first stop was Buenos Aires and the event organized by the Argentinian Oracle User Group. Due to the heavy rain in Buenos Aires this Wednesday, the number of attendees were a quite a bit lower than...
I tried to figure out how many editions of JCrete I have attended. Let’s just say that it’s been quite a few, and I enjoy is just as much every time I return. The community at JCrete is just incredible, the food is awesome. The only thing to wish for...
With a passion for open source and a drive to shape the future of automotive software, Michael Engel, Project Lead of Eclipse BlueChi , has become an active leader in the open source community. He collaborates within the Eclipse SDV Working Group to advance interoperable, software-defined vehicle solutions. In this...
Two cities, two challenges: ADAS feature prototyping and OTA updates The third edition of the Eclipse SDV Hackathon is just around the corner, and we’re excited to introduce the 2025 challenges. This year’s hackathon sharpens its focus with two well-defined challenges that offer clear objectives, comprehensive guidance, and more hands-on...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is another short update due to the vacation period. After JCrete, I had a week of vacation where I was more or less totally off the grid. That also means that I haven’t written my JCrete 2025...
We are thrilled to announce that Eclipse Temurin has achieved a remarkable milestone: 700 million cumulative downloads ! This incredible growth trajectory has seen us reach 500 million downloads just nine months ago and 600 million in March 2025. This achievement is a testament to the community's trust and the...
In this month’s session, we spoke briefly about roles in the Eclipse Foundation Development Process that are formally defined (contributors, committers, and project leads) along with de facto roles like technical leads and product manager (spoiler: product manager is a role that doesn’t make sense in the context of vendor...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer break from the weekly Platform Calls. The calls will resume...