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Over ten years ago, the Eclipse Foundation launched the Eclipse IoT working group. MQTT was one of the pillars of that launch. The first three projects were Eclipse Paho, a collection of MQTT clients, Eclipse Mosquitto, an MQTT broker, and Eclipse Kura, a Java/OSGi solution for IoT gateways that supports...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a week without traveling, I will be going to Turkey the upcoming weekend for Java Day Istanbul 2022. I have spoken at an online version of this conference before, but this is the first time in person...

I have a fantastic job. When people ask what I do, I say I manage IoT and Edge Computing programs at the Eclipse Foundation. This is true yet is an oversimplification. What I actually do is a bit more complicated than that. I need to keep an eye on over...

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools contributor award this month goes to the Arduino team, led by Stefano Visconti, for contributing internationalization capabilities to Eclipse Theia. Congratulations and thank you for this and other great contributions! As you might know, the new Arduino IDE 2.0 is based on Eclipse Theia. As highlighted...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the objectives of Jakarta EE 10 is to make sure that applications run as expected on both Java SE 11 and 17. That means that the Platform TCK must be passed by compatible implementations on both...

This was my first time speaking at GeeCON. It is a yearly three-day conference in Kraków, Poland, with around 700 participants. This was the 12th edition of the conference. There were three parallel tracks. My talk titled Jakarta EE 10 is Coming YOUR Way, was on the second day of...

As everyone who is involved in the software industry is well aware, security is a significant topic these days. In particular, open source supply chain security is top of mind across the entire ICT industry. The Eclipse Foundation, its community, its projects, and its working groups all have a strong...

The Eclipse Foundation community awards are returning once again! The Eclipse Foundation has a vibrant community of many dedicated individuals, who deserve to be recognized for their contributions. To recognize our community members, we will be presenting awards for Top Committer, Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Contributor, and Lifetime Achievement at...

EclipseCon is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies and share best practices. This year it’s taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 24 - 27. Cédric Brun,CEO at Obeo, will be acting as the program committee chair again this year. I...

Eclipse Cloud Dev Tools Working Group happenings for April, 2022; Arduino, Theia, and EclipseCon 2022 Eclipse Theia is the next generation of Eclipse! In two articles on March 16 and March 23, Jonas, Maximilian & Philip take a close look at Eclipse Theia and its modern web-based technology stack. They...