Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! A busy week with Community Over Code and Devoxx Morocco. I am currently in Paris on my way to Ludwigsburg for EclipseCon 2023, which will be the final stop on this three-week conference tour in October. Between the...
This was the 10th edition of Devoxx Morocco including the three pre-Devoxx-branded editions that were called JMaghreb. For me, it was my sixth visit to the conference, four times in Casablanca, once in Agadir, and this year in Taghazout. On Friday, I had my talk titled From Spring Boot 2...
The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools contributor award for August goes to Stefan Dirix at EclipseSource for his contributions to CDT Cloud Blueprint. Due to his very recent contributions to several participating components, you can now try CDT Cloud Blueprint online : CDT Cloud Blueprint is a template tool for integrating...
My first time at an Apache Software Foundation event was a very pleasant experience. Community Over Code moves to different locations every year, and this year it was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I would recommend visiting this lively city if you have the opportunity to it. Community Over Code 2023...
Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation team has been working on restructuring and redesigning eclipse.org . The goal of this project was to modernize the website’s look and improve its navigability, so newcomers can better understand the many projects and communities that make up the Eclipse Foundation. We’re excited...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It can be hard to track which day it is when traveling from conference to conference across time zones, so a fixed point like the weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE comes in handy occasionally. I am currently in Halifax...
The 20th edition of Devoxx Belgium is a wrap! As always, an amazing conference with exceptional speakers providing state-of-the-art content. I was so lucky to get two sessions and a BOF into this year’s edition. The first talk was a brand new one about what’s coming in Jakarta EE 11...
Microsoft announced the retirement of Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) on June 15, 2022. In alignment with this industry change and our upcoming migration to Drupal 10 and Bootstrap 5, we are formally announcing that we will cease support for IE 11 effective January 1, 2024. Our decision to extend...
The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools contributor award for October goes to Thomas Mäeder at Castle Ridge Software for his innovative and highly impactful contributions to Eclipse Theia. This includes, very recently, the last missing piece for full VS Code extension compatibility to Theia! Thomas has been an integral part of...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The details for a Milestone 1 release (M1) of Jakarta EE 11 were nailed down in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. After discussing who the target audience of an M1 is, we concluded that this release is...