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The election for positions at the various committees in the Jakarta EE working group has started. There are seats up for election in the Steering Committee, the Specification Committee, and the Marketing and Brand Committee. This election consists of one seat for Participant Members and one seat for Committer Members...

Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! EclipseCon 2020 is added to the long list of events that transforms into a virtual event this year. For those with an eye for detail will notice that the conference has changed the name from EclipseCon Europe to simply EclipseCon. The...

The Eclipse Foundation is announcing today that it will hold its annual EclipseCon conference as a virtual event. For over 15 years, EclipseCon events have been held as face-to-face gatherings of the Eclipse community, attended by committers, adopters, and contributors to the array of 375-plus Eclipse projects. EclipseCon is the...

The Eclipse IoT website redesign is now live! This project was a huge undertaking for us; we added 5,245 lines of code, closed 15 issues, removed 82,361 lines of code and made 84 commits. Yes, you got that right, the end result was -77,116 lines of code because we took...

A new Studio Jakarta EE recording is available! In this snippet, I go through the new navigation elements added to the specifications part of the Jakarta EE website. Specifically, links to the Eclipse Project pages and an external webpage if that exists. A trivia at the end. Which year did...

As I wrote in my latest #Hashtag Jakarta EE. I just started a new YouTube channel called Studio Jakarta EE. Since I totally forgot to introduce myself in the first video, I uploaded a new one today to correct that. This short video also features Duke as my distinguished guest...

Welcome to the twelfth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I should have been speaking at JavaLand, one of my favorite conferences. But as you are aware of, this conference was added to the long list of cancelled events this spring. Being a Developer Advocate normally involves a lot...

Welcome to the eleventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It’s been a special week. But at least, in our industry, we are pretty well equipped and used to remote working. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope that the measures taken will get the situation under control and we can...

Welcome to the latest Jakarta EE update. We have a number of initiatives underway and many great opportunities to get involved with Jakarta EE, so I’ll get right to it. The Adopt-A-Spec Program for Java User Groups Is Now Live We encourage all Java User Groups (JUGs) to adopt a...

The results of our first IoT Commercial Adoption survey tell a clear story about what organizations are doing with IoT right now and their plans for production deployments. The goal of the survey was to go beyond the IoT Developer Survey we’ve conducted for the last six years to gain...