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As I promised in Hashtag Jakarta EE #126, here is a short recap of my weekend in Istanbul and Java Day Istanbul 2022. The eighth edition of this conference had an online part on Friday, whereas the main conference day was in-person on Saturday. Traffic in Istanbul can be a...

If an Eclipse open source project team wants to include the community in a vote to, say, decide what functionality to include in the code base or decide whether or not they’re ready to do a release, that’s entirely up to the project team. If a project team wants to...

The launch of the Adoptium Marketplace on May 26 is exciting news for the millions of developers, researchers, and organizations who rely on TCK-tested compatible Java runtimes. As noted in the announcement, by providing a vendor neutral home for the OpenJDK ecosystem, the marketplace makes it easier than ever to...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are down to just a handful of failures before Eclipse GlassFish passes the Jakarta EE 10 TCK for the Jakarta EE Platform and Jakarta EE Web Profile. WildFly has already submitted a certification request for Jakarta EE...

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...