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Our third annual Jakarta EE Developer Survey is now open and I encourage everyone to take a few minutes and complete the survey before the April 30 deadline. Your input is extremely important. With your feedback, the entire Java ecosystem will have a better understanding of the requirements, priorities, and...

Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It has been an interesting week in the Jakarta EE community. The work with Jakarta EE 9 makes progress, but we still need any help we can get from the community. Make sure you tune in to the Jakarta EE Update...

There is a very interesting discussion ongoing on the Jakarta EE Community mailing list about forking Eclipse MicroProfile as Jakarta Configuration. While the discussion on the mailing list initially is about the MicroProfile Config specification specifically, it also raises the question of how the strategy of Jakarta EE should be...

With the release of Eclipse Theia 1.0, organizations and vendors that build cloud and desktop integrated development environments (IDEs) have a production-ready, vendor-neutral, and open source framework for creating customized development environments for both desktops and browsers. Theia is an all-new code base with independent governance from the Eclipse desktop...

The election for positions at the various committees in the Jakarta EE working group has started. There are seats up for election in the Steering Committee, the Specification Committee, and the Marketing and Brand Committee. This election consists of one seat for Participant Members and one seat for Committer Members...

Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! EclipseCon 2020 is added to the long list of events that transforms into a virtual event this year. For those with an eye for detail will notice that the conference has changed the name from EclipseCon Europe to simply EclipseCon. The...

The Eclipse Foundation is announcing today that it will hold its annual EclipseCon conference as a virtual event. For over 15 years, EclipseCon events have been held as face-to-face gatherings of the Eclipse community, attended by committers, adopters, and contributors to the array of 375-plus Eclipse projects. EclipseCon is the...

The Eclipse IoT website redesign is now live! This project was a huge undertaking for us; we added 5,245 lines of code, closed 15 issues, removed 82,361 lines of code and made 84 commits. Yes, you got that right, the end result was -77,116 lines of code because we took...

A new Studio Jakarta EE recording is available! In this snippet, I go through the new navigation elements added to the specifications part of the Jakarta EE website. Specifically, links to the Eclipse Project pages and an external webpage if that exists. A trivia at the end. Which year did...

As I wrote in my latest #Hashtag Jakarta EE. I just started a new YouTube channel called Studio Jakarta EE. Since I totally forgot to introduce myself in the first video, I uploaded a new one today to correct that. This short video also features Duke as my distinguished guest...