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Open VSX is an open source registry for VS Code extensions, providing a decentralized and community-driven alternative to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Created to foster collaboration and innovation, Open VSX offers developers a space to share, discover, and contribute to a growing repository of extensions.

Eclipse Cloud DevTools Contributor Award 2023 goes to EclipseSource and TypeFox in acknowledgment of their enormous, continuous, strategic, and sustainable contributions to the Eclipse Cloud DevTools ecosystem.

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twelve of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned in last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE, there has been a change to the targeted Java version for Jakarta EE 11. In addition to supporting Java 21, the Jakarta EE Platform project is also planning to...

Full API compatibility for Theia, Contributor Awards for Tobias Ortmayr and Dominik Bork, building diagrams and cloud native modeling tools, and recent Theia, JKube, and Langium releases

Originally posted in the the February 2019 Eclipse Foundation Newsletter. The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP), which extends the Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP), defines a blueprint for collaborating on specification development in open source. Committers are the ones who tend to develop most of the content. Committers have the...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and eleven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! January is usually not a very busy month regarding conferences and events, and 2024 is no exception so far. It is not until the end of the month that I have something planned. But from there, the pace...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ten of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2024. Now with an updated featured image. I have used the same image for all the previous 209 posts, so I figured it was time for an update. I hope you like it...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! On the last day of the year, it is time to look back and forward. Last week, I looked back on conferences and events I participated in during 2023. The plans for 2024 are forming, so make sure...

A software provenance attestation is a signed document that associates metadata with an artifact, encompassing details like the artifact’s origin, build steps, and dependencies. This information is critical for verifying the artifact’s authenticity and integrity. Featuring a cryptographic signature, provenance attestation ensures the document remains unaltered, playing a vital role...

2023 was a good conference year! I spoke at more than thirty conferences and meetups across four continents. In addition to the more traditional developer conferences, I visited a lot of Java User Groups this year. This is something I will continue to do next year. I already have a...