A little over a month ago, I wrote a blog about the need for us in the Eclipse Community to establish a sustainable, long term funding and operational model for the Open VSX Registry at open-vsx.org. The current deployment hosts over 2,600 extensions from over 1,600 different publishers and is...
It is that time of the year: the Jakarta EE 2023 Developer Survey open for your input! The survey will stay open until May 25st. I would like to invite you to take this year six-minute survey, and have the chance to share your thoughts and ideas for future Jakarta...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Java 20 was released on Tuesday this week! As with the previous releases, Java 20 comes with a small set of features. Which is natural given the 6-month release cadence. Virtual Threads ( JEP 436) from Project Loom...
This was my ninth JavaLand! Since the conference was canceled in 2020, I have spoken at every JavaLand since it started in 2014, including the online edition of 2021. It is safe to say that it is one of my favorite conferences, and I hope to return again and again...
Originally posted on January 27, 2020 The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) says nothing about how teams should organise. The EDP defines a committer role: committers are those developers who have the ability to make decisions for the project (e.g., push commits to project Git repositories and configure build servers)...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back in business after a refreshing vacation! First up is JavaLand next week. Not only will I participate in interviews, panels, and a Jakarta EE talk. I will also staff the Jakarta EE booth in the exhibition...
Answering even basic questions about software supply chain security has been surprisingly hard. For instance, how widespread are the different practices associated with software supply chain security? And do software professionals view these practices as useful or not? Easy or hard? To help answer these and related questions, Chainguard, the...
It’s that time of year again when we ask you to take a moment to participate in the annual Jakarta EE Developer Survey. This annual survey is an important part of the Java ecosystem. As one of the largest surveys in the entire Java landscape, the answers within it provide...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the second vacation edition of Hashtag Jakarta EE and the last for this time as I will be back in full force at the end of next week. The monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call was...
In my previous two blog posts I discussed concerns with the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) which we believe will harm both the open source community and the innovation economy in Europe. But the CRA needs to be understood as part of a larger legislative framework. In this post we...