Blog Posts

    Open source SDV in numbers: The Eclipse SDV community’s journey

    by Ana Bukvic

    The Eclipse SDV Working Group’s progress is reflected not only in the growing number of member companies and projects, but also in the community’s deepening engagement, as confirmed by recent analysis spanning the last two years of Eclipse SDV’s activity within the EU-funded FEDERATE initiative. Founded in 2022, the Eclipse...

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    From Local to Global: African Developers Take the IoT Leap

    by Frédéric Desbiens

    Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege of expanding my open source developer advocacy to include countries in the Global South — Brazil last year, and Nigeria this year. What struck me during these trips is that a country lagging behind wealthier, industrialised economies doesn’t mean being left...

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    Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game

    by Wayne Beaton

    Eclipse Collections is a wonderful library for Java developers that provides a rich… uh… collection (set? list? bag?) of data structures and algorithms that will serve your every need. Eclipse Collections offers alternatives to the standard Java Collections Framework with a focus on memory efficiency and speed; using Eclipse Collections...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #297

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Norway for JavaZone 2025 where I presented the talk titled The Past, the Present, and the Future of Enterprise Java. I have done this talk a couple of times, and even if the...

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    JavaZone 2025

    by Ivar Grimstad

    It’s been three years since last time I spoke at JavaZone, so it was very good to be back this year. The usual venue in downtown Oslo is under renovation, so the entire conference had relocated to Lillestrøm. It is just a 10 minute train ride north of Oslo, so...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #296

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform calls started up again this week after a three week summer break. I see that we have been a bit slow in publishing the minutes. I will try to get that done as soon...

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    OCX 2026: Six Communities. One Shared Experience.

    by Natalia Loungou

    The global open source community will gather in Brussels from 21 to 23 April 2026 for the Open Community Experience (OCX) 2026 . It isn’t just another conference; it’s where six open source communities collide to shape the future of software, developer tools, mobility, AI, compliance, and research. With one...

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