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Welcome to the forty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9 is released and available in Maven Central! You can start using it today. This is how you configure your pom.xml for Jakarta EE Platform 9: jakarta.platform jakarta.jakartaee-api 9.0.0 provided And this is how you configure your...

One of our mandates at the Eclipse Foundation is to communicate the differentiated value proposition and broad benefits we deliver to our members. No one can describe the unique entrepreneurial opportunities and advantages offered by the Eclipse ecosystem better than our members themselves. We recently asked several members to tell...

Originally posted on August 2, 2017 For many open source organisations, open means the same thing as transparent: open as in open book. At the Eclipse Foundation, we regard being transparent as the practice of making sure that the community can see and understand what the project is doing; and...

Welcome to the forty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last time I will be showing the status pie chart for Jakarta EE 9. All the ongoing ballots will end this week, so the rest of the specifications are ready to be released on Friday. This week, we...

The work with Jakarta MVC 2.0 goes forward. According to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP), we are now in the development phase where we will release as many milestones as we need until we are satisfied to move on to finalize the specification. There are already Milestone 1...

The Open VSX Registry is being transitioned to the Eclipse Foundation and as of December 9, 2020 will be managed under the Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools working group. Once the website transition is completed, Eclipse will be responsible for the hosting and maintenance of the site. This post explains...

I know, you are probably pretty tired of elections by now. But please, take the time to submit your vote in the Javas Community Process ( JCP) Executive Committee ( EC) elections. The ballot is open for voting until November 16, 2020. All the relevant information can be found on...

We are ready to move forward with the namespace change from javax.mvc.* to jakarta.mvc.* for Jakarta MVC. This will be released as Jakarta MVC 2.0. According to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP), we need to engage in a plan review with the Specification Committee. The key goal of...

Welcome to the forty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Look at that! All Jakarta EE 9 Specification ballots are either ongoing or done! This means that given the ballots are completed successfully, we are ready to release Jakarta EE 9 on Friday, November 20, 2020. Wednesday this week, we visited...

The election for the Java Community Process ( JCP) Executive Committee ( EC) has started! The ballot is open for voting until November 16, 2020. But don’t wait, submit your vote today! Check out the nominees for the 2020 Executive Committee Election if you want to see who the candidates...