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Virtual events and webinars have surged this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As organizations made the shift, we saw an abundance of new webinar streams come to life. For the Eclipse Foundation, this included the shift of EclipseCon 2020 to a virtual event, the inception of ECD Tool Time...

Last week on December 9, we completed the transition of the public instance of the Open VSX Registry at https://open-vsx.org to the Eclipse Foundation. I previously wrote about this, and the implications for you, especially if you publish extensions. This post is a followup with some reminders and further information...

In the December 15 Platform Project call, the platform team made a couple of important decisions regarding the upcoming Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to ship Java SE 11 support as soon as possible. That means that we want to minimize releasing new API...

With a record 18 sessions in 2020 and over 1400 attendees, the Jakarta Tech Talk webinar series has grown at an incredible rate since its 2019 inception. Our cloud native Java community has continued to share & engage in a common passion for learning about new and updated technologies. In...

Welcome to the fiftieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Wow, fifty hashtags so far! Tuesday was a big day for the Jakarta EE community. That was the day of JakartaOne Livestream 2020. With this event, we officially announced Jakarta EE 9, even though it has been available in Maven Central...

I am happy to announce the first Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! And what a start! I have the honor of having Dalia Abo Sheasha as my special guest in this session. Dalia works as Developer Advocate at JetBrains, and the topic of this LIVE session is tooling support for Jakarta...

We are planning to install a new version of our Gerrit ECA validation plugin this week in an effort to reduce errors when a contribution is validated. With this update, we are moving our validation logic to our new ECA Validation API that we created for our new Gitlab instance...

The Jakarta EE 9 platform release announced during today’s JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference has a notable change: The package namespace is now jakarta.* instead of javax.*. Moving all the specification APIs to the jakarta namespace (sometimes referred to as the “big bang”) is a simple, but very significant, update that...

Welcome to the forty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Big day on Tuesday! The second edition of JakartaOne Livestream happens on December 8, 2020. Make sure you are registered! I am really looking forward to hosting this event together with Tanja. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and lots...

Did you know that organizations — whether they are members of the Eclipse Foundation or not — can be listed as Eclipse technology adopters? In November 2019, The Eclipse IoT working group launched a campaign to promote adopters of Eclipse IoT technologies. Since then, more than 60 organizations have shown...