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Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have some good news regarding the progress of refactoring the Jakarta EE 11 Platform TCK. According to the team, they are now about 50% done and is starting to see the finishing line with more confidence. I hope...

It's undeniable that today's software innovation stems from the Open Source community. Celebrating 20 years of the Eclipse Foundation, the EclipseCon has evolved into the Open Community Experience (OCX) . This rebranding reflects the foundation's expansion beyond developer tooling into diverse domains like real-time embedded systems, Dataspaces, Java ecosystems (Adoptium...

In response to requests from various projects and after discussions between the Eclipse Foundation Security Team and the Architecture Council, we announced the creation of Project Security Teams (see the discussion at https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-csi/discussions/4 ) This blog post gives an overview of various questions that we have received in the last...

Next week, I am going overseas on tour with Jakarta EE. I will visit a handful of Java User Groups in the South of the USA. The tour schedule looks like this: September 9 – 6:00 PM – TriJUG – Durham, NC – Details and registrationSeptember 10 – 6:00 PM...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week was very productive for the TCK Project. Different options for how to be able to deliver Jakarta EE 11 was discussed. Among those a hybrid approach to require parts of the TCK to be run the old...

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the Eclipse Foundation. It also represents a brand-new start for our annual flagship conference. Its new name, Open Community Experience (OCX), emphasises our community's place in the broader open source ecosystem. The event will take place in Mainz, Germany, on October 22-24, 2024. OCX...

Do you have a demo or examples in a specific repository? Or perhaps you have a functionality that needs time to mature, and you publish it in the open source spirit, but nobody should use it (yet) in a production setup? If you have such a code, mark it clearly...

So, you’re thinking about attending the Open Community for Automotive (OCA) conference in Mainz, Germany? Let me save you the trouble. Sure, it sounds like an event packed with cutting-edge technologies, collaboration opportunities, and a chance to rub shoulders with industry innovators. But here’s why you should just stay home...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Even if progress is being made with refactoring the Jakarta EE Platform TCK, the effort is in desperate need of more resources to complete the work in a timely matter. If you have any experience with TCK work, your...

When I got the opportunity to be a part of the LAOUC Community Tour 2024 with two talks in Paraguay, I immediately accepted. This was my first visit to the country. It is not the first destination that comes to mind, and I had to google what the name of...