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We’re excited to announce some of the early bird talks that will take place at OCX in Mainz, Germany, from 22-24 October 2024. OCX includes several collocated conferences, such as EclipseCon, Open Community for Java, and Open Community for Automotive, among others. EclipseCon will be the focal point for all...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was again a busy week with two conferences back-to-back. First I went to Sofia, Bulgaria for JPrime before I continued to Barcelona, Spain for Spring I/O. Both conferences are great, well-organized events with a welcoming community. So, over...

This was my first time attending and speaking at Spring I/O. The conference is located in Barcelona and attracts around 1200 attendees from all over the World. The two-day conference has four parallel tracks as well as two workshop tracks. Spring I/O is an extremely well-organized conference. Everything flows smoothly...

Today, we are announcing the deprecation of the Eclipse User Storage Service SDK (the Eclipse project) and the Eclipse User Storage Service API (hosted and maintained by the Eclipse Foundation). The Eclipse User Storage Service (USS) API was created in 2015 to enable Eclipse projects to store and retrieve user...

JPrime in Sofia is one of my favorite conferences. The event has two tracks, which means that you always have a good crowd even if there is a superstar speaker in the other room at the same time. The venue has a big outdoor patio and is surrounded by a...

Exciting news - the 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey is now open! This comprehensive survey provides developers and industry professionals with a unique opportunity to shape the future of IoT and embedded systems by sharing their insights and experiences. Since 2015, we've been at the forefront of exploring the...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There was good progress this week in getting the release reviews for Jakarta EE 11 specifications underway. Nine specifications have been approved, five are under review, and two are ready and waiting for the Jakarta EE Specification Committee to...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Berlin-Brandenburg Java User Group. The event was conveniently located near Berlin Hauptbahnhof. The around 25 attendees got to see the premiere of a brand new talk I have prepared for Spring I/O next week. The talk is titled Why Spring Matters...

As the Eclipse Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary, its annual developer conference is reborn under a new name: Open Community Experience (OCX). With the new name come a new city (Mainz, Germany), and a fresh new concept for the event. One thing that does not change is the focus on...

The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools (ECDT) community is happy to announce Rob Moran and Jens Reinecke from Arm as the recipients of the Contributor Award in the second quarter 2024 for their continuous, strategic, and highly valuable contributions to CDT Cloud.