Hashtag Jakarta EE #74
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
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You can help us make GAIA-X more open
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...
Jakarta EE 9.1 Accelerates Open Source Enterprise Java
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...
Early Bird Deadline to Submit a Proposal for EclipseCon 2021
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...
Jakarta EE 9.1 is RELEASED!
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...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #73
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...
The Apache Software Foundation has joined Jakarta EE Working Group
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...
Make This Person We Hired a Committer
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...
Marketing is not a bad word
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...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #72
Welcome to the seventy-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It...