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    Share Your News with an Eclipse Foundation Press Release

    by Shanda Giacomoni

    The Eclipse community spans a large number of projects, working groups, and members, and the numbers are continuing to grow. We work together to achieve great things, and it’s important to share this progress with the greater open source community by getting media coverage. That’s why the Eclipse Foundation marketing...

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    Eclipse Theia Blueprint Now Available for Download

    by Brian King

    We are pleased to announce the Alpha release of Eclipse Theia Blueprint, a downloadable template tool for Eclipse Theia, including desktop installers for all major operating systems. It can be used to evaluate the capabilities of Eclipse Theia on the desktop as well as to serve as a “blueprint” upon...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #67

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to the sixty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most exciting things that happened in the Jakarta EE space this week is that the Jakarta EE Platform project decided to start working on a new Jakarta EE Core Profile. The Pull Request to start the process of...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #66

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to the sixty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is on track for the mid-May release. GlassFish 6.1 now passes the TCK and a release candidate will be made available this week. Meanwhile, the work with planning for the next Jakarta EE release goes on. We are...

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    Why Java Developers Continue to Rely on Jakarta EE

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation spoke to leading Java developers around the world to discuss why they rely on Jakarta EE and the unique benefits of using Jakarta EE technologies. Their input is captured in our white paper, which describes the important advantages Jakarta EE offers today and...

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    Open VSX: A Vendor-Neutral Home for VS Code Extensions

    by Mike Milinkovich

    With the transition of the Open VSX Registry from TypeFox to the Eclipse Foundation, the industry now has a vendor-neutral and publicly hosted open source alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace for VS Code extensions. The move increases transparency and flexibility for extension users, extension publishers, and tool developers...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #65

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to the sixty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It looks like Jakarta EE 9.1 may be delivered sometime in May. The Jakarta EE Platform project discussed the possibility for a release date in mid-May at this week’s platform call. There are still a couple of details to be sorted...

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    Introducing New Che Workspaces on OpenShift

    by Brian King

    A new resource is now available to make it easy to try out Eclipse Che. If you are new to Che, it is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native IDE that runs in containers. Running in Kubernetes brings sidecar containers, developer environment as code (automating setup). This means that you can code...

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    Eclipse Jetty 11 Supports the Big Bang

    by Mike Milinkovich

    I’m happy to share the news that Eclipse Jetty 11 has been released and certified as compatible with the Jakarta Servlet v5.0 specification. Released as part of Jakarta EE 9, this new version of the Servlet specification uses the new jakarta.* namespace. Often referred to as the “Big Bang”, this...

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