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Welcome to the sixty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It looks like Jakarta EE 9.1 may be delivered sometime in May. The Jakarta EE Platform project discussed the possibility for a release date in mid-May at this week’s platform call. There are still a couple of details to be sorted...

A new resource is now available to make it easy to try out Eclipse Che. If you are new to Che, it is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native IDE that runs in containers. Running in Kubernetes brings sidecar containers, developer environment as code (automating setup). This means that you can code...

I’m happy to share the news that Eclipse Jetty 11 has been released and certified as compatible with the Jakarta Servlet v5.0 specification. Released as part of Jakarta EE 9, this new version of the Servlet specification uses the new jakarta.* namespace. Often referred to as the “Big Bang”, this...

Today we announced the creation of the Adoptium Working Group, whose mission is to bring high-quality, open source Java runtimes to millions of developers building the next generation of enterprise applications. Adoptium was created in collaboration with the AdoptOpenJDK Technical Steering Committee, and supports the Eclipse Adoptium top-level project. The...

We at the Eclipse Foundation have watched with mounting concern the recent violent attacks on people of Asian descent. We condemn these actions and the bigotry that has driven them in the strongest possible terms. As an organization we stand in support of Asian people. Overcoming racism represents arguably the...

Welcome to the sixty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! $ java -version openjdk version "16" 2021-03-16 OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 16+36) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (build 16+36, mixed mode, sharing) Java 16 contains a lot of goodies for us, so go ahead and download it to give it...

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.