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Just a little more than five months ago, I was sharing news about the Jakarta EE 9 platform release. Today, I’m very pleased to tell you that the Jakarta EE Working Group has released the Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform and Web Profile specifications and related Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs). Congratulations...

The early bird proposal deadline for EclipseCon 2021 is fast approaching. Submit a proposal by June 1, 2021 for a chance to be one of the first five talks selected for the program! With ten different topics, including our core technology pillars for Cloud Native for Java, IoT and Edge...

Join us in celebrating a new release of Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Working Group Releases Jakarta EE 9.1 as Industry Continues to Embrace Open Source Enterprise Java! Jakarta EE 9.1 adds support for Java SE 11 runtimes to the foundational Jakarta EE 9 release. This gives developers more flexibility...

Welcome to the seventy-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 will be released on Tuesday, May 25, 2021! Stay tuned for announcements on this blog, the jakarta.ee website, Jakarta EE on Twitter, and a bunch of other places. But, we don’t rest there. The work with Jakarta EE...

I am extremely happy to let you know that The Apache Software Foundation (Apache, ASF) has joined Jakarta EE Working Group! Apache needs no introduction, but let me remind everyone about their involvement with Jakarta EE / Java EE community goes way back, with Apache TomEE and Apache TomCat implementations...

Here’s a scenario: you work for an organization that contributes to open source and you’ve hired a developer to work on your favourite open source project. You need to make them a committer. How do you do that? I get this sort of request every so often: “we’ve hired so-and-so...

“Developers don’t like marketing” — This comes from a common misconception about what marketing is and what we do. For the marketing team at the Eclipse Foundation, marketing means developer and community outreach, ecosystem building, and driving project awareness and industry adoption.

Welcome to the seventy-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It...

Originally posted on October 26/2017. This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is...

We’ve been fielding a number of questions lately about the intersection of our spec process and patents. A couple of these community discussions have gone off in directions that are off target, factually incorrect, or both. Therefore, the purpose of this short FAQ is to explain the patent license options...