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On the second episode of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast, Thabang and I talked to Glenn Ergeerts and Frank Gielissen of Aloxy, an industrial IoT (IIoT) startup based in Antwerp. Aloxy specializes in the chemical and oil and gas industries, building infrastructure sensors that monitor the positions of critical valves...

Welcome to the seventy-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED! Here’s what you should do now: Step 1: Update your pom.xml jakarta.platform jakarta.jakartaee-api 9.1.0 Step 2: Migrate to jakarta.* namespace Follow this migration guide for the namespace migration. Step 3: Run Download the Jakarta...

The Eclipse Foundation AISBL is now officially a member of the GAIA-X AISBL and Michael Plagge running for a seat on the Board of Directors. Please help us spread the word to existing GAIA-X members. If your company is a member, please tell your company representative that they should vote...

Just a little more than five months ago, I was sharing news about the Jakarta EE 9 platform release. Today, I’m very pleased to tell you that the Jakarta EE Working Group has released the Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform and Web Profile specifications and related Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs). Congratulations...

The early bird proposal deadline for EclipseCon 2021 is fast approaching. Submit a proposal by June 1, 2021 for a chance to be one of the first five talks selected for the program! With ten different topics, including our core technology pillars for Cloud Native for Java, IoT and Edge...

Join us in celebrating a new release of Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Working Group Releases Jakarta EE 9.1 as Industry Continues to Embrace Open Source Enterprise Java! Jakarta EE 9.1 adds support for Java SE 11 runtimes to the foundational Jakarta EE 9 release. This gives developers more flexibility...

Welcome to the seventy-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 will be released on Tuesday, May 25, 2021! Stay tuned for announcements on this blog, the jakarta.ee website, Jakarta EE on Twitter, and a bunch of other places. But, we don’t rest there. The work with Jakarta EE...

I am extremely happy to let you know that The Apache Software Foundation (Apache, ASF) has joined Jakarta EE Working Group! Apache needs no introduction, but let me remind everyone about their involvement with Jakarta EE / Java EE community goes way back, with Apache TomEE and Apache TomCat implementations...

Here’s a scenario: you work for an organization that contributes to open source and you’ve hired a developer to work on your favourite open source project. You need to make them a committer. How do you do that? I get this sort of request every so often: “we’ve hired so-and-so...

“Developers don’t like marketing” — This comes from a common misconception about what marketing is and what we do. For the marketing team at the Eclipse Foundation, marketing means developer and community outreach, ecosystem building, and driving project awareness and industry adoption.