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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #74

    by Ivar Grimstad

    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...

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    You can help us make GAIA-X more open

    by Gael Blondelle

    Today, we received two important news items from the GAIA-X AISBL: The Eclipse Foundation AISBL is now officially a member of the GAIA-X AISBL My colleague Michael Plagge is listed as a candidate for a seat on the Board of Directors that will be elected on June 7th. Due to...

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    Jakarta EE 9.1 Accelerates Open Source Enterprise Java

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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    Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED!

    by Ivar Grimstad

    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...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #73

    by Ivar Grimstad

    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...

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    Make This Person We Hired a Committer

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Marketing is not a bad word

    by Shanda Giacomoni

    I’ve been with the Eclipse Foundation for a little over a year now, and on more than one occasion I’ve heard “developers don’t like marketing”. This comes from a common misconception about what marketing is and what we do. So, what is marketing and why do developers and open source...

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