Blog Posts

In my post Migrate to Jakarta EE 9 last year, I wrote about how to migrate your application from the javax.* to the jakarta.* namespace. I think it is time to revisit this topic and outline the steps involved. In the recent versions of the Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond...

After announcing in March 2020 that EclipseCon 2020 would be held as a virtual event for the first time, there was plenty of uncertainty and concern on how our community would react. While it is impossible to replace the camaraderie that came from the in-person event in Ludwigsburg, the response...

When we talk about marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, we really mean connecting and communicating with the developers and stakeholders that comprise the open source community. As a member, getting involved with vendor-neutral marketing programs helps us all communicate the value of the open source, increase awareness of the technologies...

Welcome to the fifty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are two weeks into the new year already, and I want to remind the specification teams that about the deadline for submitting a plan review in order to be a candidate for inclusion in the Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The...

This is a continuation of yesterday’s Welcome to the Eclipse Foundation AISBL blog. Yesterday, we announced that we completed our move to European-based governance with the creation of Eclipse Foundation AISBL, a Belgian international nonprofit association. In this post, I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an overview of...

Today, we’re announcing that the Eclipse Foundation has successfully completed all of the necessary formalities and has formally established the Eclipse Foundation AISBL, an international non-profit association based in Brussels, Belgium. As a European-based global organization, the Eclipse Foundation is in the ideal position to build on the growing momentum...

If your business is deploying or using commercial IoT and edge computing solutions, please take a few minutes before February 28 to complete our 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey. With your input, everyone in the IoT ecosystem will have better insight into the requirements, priorities, and challenges organizations...

EclipseCon 2020, which was virtual for the first time, boasted eleven IoT and Edge related sessions with topics ranging from innovative operating systems to autonomous driving to how Edge Computing can learn from the moon landings and everything in between. Racking up nearly 4,000 views combined, the IoT track and...

Welcome to the fifty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The main goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to support the Java SE 11 runtime. The APIs will still be compiled to Java SE 8 level in order to be usable to both Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. That...

Happy New Year! It's a new year and we have a new case study to inspire your entrepreneurial open source journey. In 2009, just two years after Obeo joined the Eclipse Foundation, the company took a bold step and became a Strategic member with a representative on the Eclipse Foundation...