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Open source software is the single most important engine for innovation today. The ability to freely combine software components, frameworks, and platforms frees developers from constantly reinventing the wheel and allows them to focus on the new innovations that users want. Free software also enables business models to scale in...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference season continues. I represented Jakarta EE this week at the We Are Developers World Congress in Berlin. Next week, I am heading to Kraków and Devoxx Poland. But before that, I will be participating in Jakarta...

We Are Developers in Berlin is a massive event! It’s been a long time since I have been among so many people in one place. This would be considered a big crowd even by pre-pandemic standards. My talk Get Ready for Jakarta EE 10 was scheduled as one of the...

JNation is an awesome, community-focused conference located in beautiful Coimbra, Portugal! More than 800 attendees showed up for this one-day event. You can see a majority of them up on stage after the opening keynote in the image below. This time, I was accompanied by Tanja on stage. In our...

The work of the Jakarta EE specification developers is in its final stages. This release is getting quite a bit of attention, and the wider enterprise Java community was obviously waiting for this kind of progress for a very long time! Focusing the Jakarta EE 10 release plan and following...

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools contributor award this month goes to all parties which contributed to Eclipse Theia Blueprint: Arm, STMicroelectronics, EclipseSource and Ericsson. Theia Blueprint was released last year and been actively maintained with a new release every month since then. It's time to honor the efforts of those involved...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta Security 3.0 will conclude tomorrow. This means that all of the individual specifications that are a part of Jakarta EE 10 are approved! So when can we expect Jakarta EE 10 ( Platform, Web...

EclipseCon is heading back to Ludwigsburg! After two years of virtual editions, we are looking forward to getting the community back together face-to-face. This year’s program will have talks covering the breadth of the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem — from Java, cloud native, web and desktop IDEs, IoT, modeling, quality and...

Eclipse Cloud Dev Tools Working Group happenings for May, 2022; Arduino, Theia, JKube, and Cloud IDE Days recordings. Getting Started with Theia Building an IDE that runs both in the cloud and on the desktop can be a daunting experience. In this article, Jonas, Maximilian & Philip provide a nice...

Please join the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Working Group for a Q2 2022 Community Update. We'll review key happenings in the open source projects and SIGs and provide an open forum for Q&A. June 29 at 10:00 AM EDT, 4:00 PM CET. Calendar entry is on the Cloud DevTools Community calendar...