Blog Posts

I’m very pleased to share the news that multiple Eclipse Foundation members have joined forces in a new working group focused on advancing and sustaining the Eclipse IDE used by millions of developers the world over. The Eclipse IDE Working Group members will leverage our governance framework to openly collaborate...

As I mentioned in Hashtag Jakarta EE #76, the Jakarta EE Platform project is in the process of determining the Java SE requirements for Jakarta EE 10. In this post, I try to shed some light on the implications of the various options currently up for a vote. What do...

Welcome to the seventy-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the goals for the Jakarta EE Platform project is to define a predictable way the Jakarta EE specifications are aligned with Java SE. For example: Which Java SE version should Jakarta EE 10 require? This is one of the...

Our 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption survey results are out now. In this second edition of the survey, we wanted to gain a better understanding of the overall IoT & edge ecosystem challenges and concerns of today’s organizations. This year’s survey not only focuses on how today’s organizations are...

I recently shared a Q&A with Cédric Brun, program committee chair for EclipseCon 2021, who explained how the program is chosen. Now, we highlight five talks that the committee chose for early acceptance, along with Cédric’s insights on why the program committee was excited to include these talks. Open-Source in...

The month of May was very busy with activities related to Release 9.1! Jakarta EE development and innovation is definitely taking off with full speed. I would like to take this opportunity and invite you all to join the momentum, please get involved and help contribute to the future success...

Welcome to the seventy-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform project does not rest on its laurels! Vivid discussions are going in the weekly platform calls as well as on the mailing lists. Read the minutes from the platform calls to keep informed in case you are...

On the second episode of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast, Thabang and I talked to Glenn Ergeerts and Frank Gielissen of Aloxy, an industrial IoT (IIoT) startup based in Antwerp. Aloxy specializes in the chemical and oil and gas industries, building infrastructure sensors that monitor the positions of critical valves...

Welcome to the seventy-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED! Here’s what you should do now: Step 1: Update your pom.xml jakarta.platform jakarta.jakartaee-api 9.1.0 Step 2: Migrate to jakarta.* namespace Follow this migration guide for the namespace migration. Step 3: Run Download the Jakarta...

The Eclipse Foundation AISBL is now officially a member of the GAIA-X AISBL and Michael Plagge running for a seat on the Board of Directors. Please help us spread the word to existing GAIA-X members. If your company is a member, please tell your company representative that they should vote...