Blog Posts

As the title says, there is good news to share on the progress of the European Union’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) as the final revisions agreed to in the trilogue negotiations appear to largely exclude the open source community from its scope. I have written (here and here) and...

If you’ve read my two previous blog posts, you already have an understanding of how interest groups and working groups provide two different mechanisms for industry collaboration, how your organisation can get started on its own collaboration journey, and the numerous benefits that come from collaborating on open source software...

In the realm of open-source software, security of the supply chain is not just a concern—it’s a crucial battleground. The Eclipse Foundation, at the forefront of this fight, has taken a decisive step with its 2023 initiative to enforce two-factor authentication (2FA) across its platforms. This move is more than...

We are thrilled to announce a landmark achievement in the evolution of Theia: full compatibility with the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension API, marking a significant milestone in the journey of Theia towards becoming a universally adaptable development environment. Unleashing a World of Features with VS Code Extensions Theia...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! A new thing we are doing with Jakarta EE 11 is to release milestones as we develop the specifications. This is to make the APIs available for implementers at an earlier stage than previously. The planned milestones for Jakarta...

Eclipse Foundation’s vulnerability reporting programme has seen an important revamp in 2023.

Welcome to issue number two hundred and six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As you may have noticed, I was in Canada this week. On Tuesday, we hosted the Studio Jakarta EE of JakartaOne Livestream at Tanja’s house in Ottawa. Then I spoke at the Ottawa JUG on Wednesday before going to...

Yesterday I spoke at the Toronto JUG with an audience of around 30 interested JUG members. This was the last stop on my mini-tour of Canada, and I did the From Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 with Java 21 and Jakarta EE presentation here as well. Many thanks...

It was a pleasure to be able to speak at the Ottawa JUG yesterday. This was their third meetup since they did a reboot of the group after the pandemic. IBM Canada hosted us at their offices in Ottawa, as well as provided catering in the form of pizzas, salads...

JakartaOne Livestream 2023 was the fifth edition of the conference. The setup of Studio Jakarta EE has improved year-for-year, and now closely resembles a professional TV studio. After the seemingly unavoidable network issues at the beginning, everything worked flawlessly. It is so much fun getting together for a production like...