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A postmortem about the incident that could have affected artifacts on repo.eclipse.org What happened? On Feb 16th 2021, we received a security report about secrets in the main Jiro repository. This report was correct. On March 18th 2020, the secrets were committed inside the repository. >Photo by Amol Tyagi on...

Ericsson leverages Eclipse Theia to deliver user friendly cloud-first development and debugging capabilities This is a guest post by Ericsson, an Eclipse Cloud DevTools Strategic Working Group member. Authored by Colin Grant and Kenneth Marut, Web Technology Developers at Ericsson. When dealing with low-level code, the ability to inspect the...

Welcome to the sixty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We have tried to keep the overhead to a minimum with the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process ( EFSP). Compared to other specification processes, it is pretty lightweight. Both the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP) and the MicroProfile Specification Process (...

For Jakarta EE even in the short month as February is, we have quite a few things going on. Here is an update highlighting key initiatives.

Welcome to the sixty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the major changes introduced with Jakarta EE over how it used to be is that the TCKs are available for free to anyone that wants to certify their implementation. I described how to do this in Compatible Implementations. This...

Read our itemis member case study to learn why companies in the automotive industry are increasingly interested in itemis and its active involvement in the Eclipse Foundation. itemis specializes in model-driven technologies. About half of the company’s software architects and engineers use, or are involved in, projects at the Eclipse...

I’m running for election to the affiliate member seat on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation. If you are an OSI affiliate organization, I would appreciate your vote. Here is a little information about why I am running for the...

Our Jakarta EE Working group is growing! Please meet our new member jadeva GmbH! We talked to the enthusiastic and engaging duo Stephan Zubke, CTO is one of the initial founders of the company, and Claudia Geiger, CEO of the company, who provided a bit more information about the company...

Intellectual property management is important for Eclipse projects. As a committer, you are our first line of defense when it comes to identifying and mitigating intellectual property issues. Over the past year or so, you’ve likely heard and seen rumblings of some of the innovations that we’ve been making in...

Dropping barriers to open up opportunities for contribution is a critical activity for Eclipse open source projects. Ideally, Eclipse open source project teams should be actively soliciting contribution, growing participation in the project, and otherwise being good open source citizens. Minimally, though, Eclipse project teams must engage in practices that...