Blog Posts

During 2020 we began to witness the coming of age of open source Cloud Development Tool technologies and increased adoption of those technologies, along with the acceleration of remote workplace practices. My prediction is that 2021 will be a tipping point for Open Source Cloud IDEs and associated technologies. Innovation...

Boasting an audience of over 2,500 IoT enthusiasts, the Virtual IoT Meetup Group brings together a world-wide network of developers dedicated to discovering and creating new technologies that will make it easier to create IoT applications. In 2020, the group gathered four times through Eclipse Foundation organized events to discuss...

As Edge Computing architectures and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to grow throughout multiple vertical markets, one trend that enterprises have made abundantly clear is that, in 2021, they expect their edge computing solutions and IoT technologies to be based on or leverage open source. This was confirmed in...

Launched in November 2020, the Cloud Tool Time webinar series aims to educate, innovate and engage with the fast growing cloud development tools community. The Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools working group has produced two webinar sessions to date, with promising community support and turnout for both sessions. Looking to...

Welcome to the fifty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As we are ramping down to close 2020 and recharge for 2021, there are still things going on in the community. First, I would like to point you to the Studio Jakarta EE LIVE I had with Dalia this week where...

Jakarta MVC 2.0 passed the release review ballot and is now ratified as a final specification according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP). The last steps for the project team after the ballot are to release the staged artifacts to Maven Central and verify that all published information...

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...