When a DSL is worth the cost: Lessons from quantum computing
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) often divide engineering teams. When they work, they make complex systems easier to reason about. When they...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #320
Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Ooops, I amn an little late publishing Hashtag...
Incubation in the Eclipse Foundation Development Process
By Wayne Beaton Becoming an Eclipse open source project is a process, not an event: it may take your new...
Enterprise Java Persistence beyond the JPA mindset
For a long time, enterprise Java persistence has been approached as a largely stable area of the stack. Entities, an...
How the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) May Impact our Committer Community
During the session, we spoke about how the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) may impact our committer community and what this...
Scaling the Open VSX Registry responsibly with rate limiting
The Open VSX Registry has become widely used infrastructure for modern developer tools. That growth reflects strong trust from the...
Generating an SBOM is not enough for Java teams
Many Java teams already generate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). In isolation, that is not particularly difficult. What is more...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #319
Welcome to issue number three hundred and nineteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I am writing this, I am sitting...
If You Depend on Eclipse Platform Technologies, Now Is the Time to Act
While IDE usage declines, the underlying Eclipse Platform technologies remain mature and widely deployed. Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and...
We’re hiring: improving the services that support a global open source community
The Eclipse Foundation supports a global open source community by providing trusted platforms, services, and governance. As a vendor-neutral organisation...
IoT architecture at scale: why device-centric design no longer works
IoT systems rarely fail because of hardware constraints. They fail because we continue to design them as collections of isolated...
Jfokus 2026
This year’s Jfokus was probably the busiest I have had. My schedule filled up even though I didn’t have a...