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At EclipseCon Europe 2019 I attended a very interesting talk entitled " CI systems need care, too! Here's how we improved ours over the years". It was an eye opener! Here's what I gathered. New developer comes to a Company Company sells a software product built by a CI system...

While it’s true that most Eclipse projects use the Eclipse Public License, many Eclipse open source projects use alternative licenses either alone or in combination. The chart below shows the relative use of various license schemes by Eclipse open source projects: Note that we use SPDX expression. In SPDX, license...

It’s been a week since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation! As you may have noticed, I am involved in almost any committee around Jakarta EE and enterprise Java in general and my new role has some implications for these engagements. I have listed...

When you look at the very impressive list of founding members for our new Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools Working Group, it’s clear that world-leading technology companies strongly believe that open source, cloud native development tools are needed. Our Eclipse Foundation developer community has also enthusiastically embraced the initiative. To...

The Eclipse Foundation is in the process of making a major update to our Intellectual Property Policy. A big part of this update is a change in the way that we will manage third party content. In the context of the Eclipse IP Policy, “third party content” is content that...

Welcome to the latest Jakarta EE community update. In this edition, we highlight key opportunities to participate in upcoming community events, explore the Jakarta EE 8 release, and learn more about the very bright future of cloud native Java. EclipseCon Europe 2019: Register for Community Day Community Day , which...

The Eclipse community is seriously on a roll these days. Hot on the heels of the Eclipse Che 7 release, we just announced the Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools Working Group, a vendor-neutral, open source collaboration that will focus on the evolution of development tools for, and in, the cloud...

According to McKinsey, the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a total potential economic impact of up to $11.1 trillion a year by 2025. What are the leading industrial IoT use cases that will contribute to that impact? You tell us! The Eclipse IoT Working Group has launched the 2019...

September 10th, 2019 was a big day in the Jakarta EE global circles. Not just that we released the very first version of the Jakarta EE, but we also got very ambitious and organized the very first JakartaOne Livestream conference. What an experience that was! The intention was to mark...

As I am marking one year at the Eclipse Foundation as the Jakarta EE Program Manager, I am looking forward to the major milestone we are all eagerly waiting for - the Jakarta EE 8 release. We now have an official release date: September 10th, 2019! It feels like the...