Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived back home from JConf Dominica 2024, and have a couple of hours to pack my bags before heading out again for JCrete 2024. Busy times for a developer advocate, but so incredibly great to...
A Java conference in the Dominican Republic sounds too good to be true. Well, I can tell you that it is a thing, and it is awesome! JConf Dominicana, The Caribbean Java Technologies Conference is organized by Java Dominicano, the Dominican Java User Group. It is a one-day conference with...
The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools Working Group is recognizing Hans-Ake Gustafsson, Kostiantyn Kirenko (both from STMicroelectronics ), and Olaf Lesenich (from EclipseSource ) with a Special Contributor Award . This award celebrates and recognizes their exceptional and strategic contributions to the Open VSX project and deployment at open-vsx.org . Hans-Ake...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a couple of weeks at home, I am going on the road again. First off is JConfDomincana, the Caribbean Java Technologies Conference organized by the Dominican Republic Java User Group, where I will host a workshop together...
Recent changes to the code signing services, specifically for JAR signing and Windows Authenticode, have led to performance issues in CI builds. Let’s explore strategies to mitigate these issues and outline our remediation plan. The Eclipse Foundation will soon enable GitHub configuration self-service (also known as Eclipse OtterDog) for all...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I was speaking at Developer Week’24 in Nuremberg, Germany. That was my last conference of the European conference season before summer. This year, there will be a couple of conferences during the summer before the fall...
Developer Week is a four-day conference that takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. As the name implies, it is a developer conference where Java is a track among the other track topics. I spoke at the conference for the first time in 2017, and it feels like the Java track has...
Eclipse Foundation Introduces Theia IDE The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, has announced the release of Eclipse Theia IDE, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Built on the robust Eclipse Theia platform, a popular choice among tool providers since...
At the Eclipse Foundation, we believe in empowering developers to harness the power of technology to drive positive change in the world. Today, we are excited to announce the release of the State of Open Source in the Global South report. Based on the results of in-depth interviews and a...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I wrote last week, all the Jakarta EE 11 specifications are now finished and the remaining work to get Jakarta EE 11 released is to finalize the refactoring of the TCK and have at least one open-source...