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We're seeing a trend of free (as in beer) resources being discontinued, or altered, with very little time provided to allow projects to react. This causes pain for OSS projects that use and depend on these services. The trend is certainly not new, and although there's certainly a case for...

The start of the year is strong for Jakarta EE. New members, new plans for the next release, new initiatives and new Jakarta EE talks and sessions. Please read on.

It has been a great pleasure to witness steady progress in Jakarta EE in the year 2020. This was a very challenging year around the globe, but even with the impact of the pandemic, we continued to make great strides forward in the Jakarta EE community. Before we look ahead...

The Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors recently approved the creation of the Eclipse Automotive Top-Level Project. This new project provides a space for open source projects to explore ideas and technologies addressing challenges in the automotive, mobility and transportation domain. In a recent report [1.] 451 Research said, “The Eclipse...

The Eclipse Foundation is a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority. Eclipse project committers can use the tools that best suit their needs to remediate their vulnerability, provided that–when disclosed–related issues are tracked via the official (open and transparent) project issue tracker. To the extent possible, tools used to...

Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I wanted to take the opportunity to show you that I don’t always sit by my desk writing blog posts and attending virtual events. I do other stuff as well! At the end of this week, we got some days of...

Welcome to the fifty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is time for a new edition of Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! This time I have Emily Jiang from IBM with me in the studio. We will talk about MicroProfile 4.0 and I am pretty sure that Emily will show some...

In my post Migrate to Jakarta EE 9 last year, I wrote about how to migrate your application from the javax.* to the jakarta.* namespace. I think it is time to revisit this topic and outline the steps involved. In the recent versions of the Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond...

After announcing in March 2020 that EclipseCon 2020 would be held as a virtual event for the first time, there was plenty of uncertainty and concern on how our community would react. While it is impossible to replace the camaraderie that came from the in-person event in Ludwigsburg, the response...

When we talk about marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, we really mean connecting and communicating with the developers and stakeholders that comprise the open source community. As a member, getting involved with vendor-neutral marketing programs helps us all communicate the value of the open source, increase awareness of the technologies...