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With the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) a single open source specification project has a dedicated project team of committers to create and maintain one or more specifications. The cycle of creation and maintenance extends across multiple versions of the specification, and so while individual members may come and go...

It’s time to change the specification names… When we first moved the APIs and TCKs for the Java EE specifications over to the Eclipse Foundation under the Jakarta EE banner, we kept the existing names for the specifications in place, and adopted placeholder names for the open source projects that...

Technical Work We will need a lot of help on this front as well o Jakarta EE specifications: specification documents and APIs We have heard from members of the community some suggestions on what they need from the specification, but we can always use more. Get involved in the discussion...

I am happy to announce that Gabriela Motroc has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Content Marketing Specialist based in Germany. Gabriela joins us from the Software & Support Media Group, where she was an editor of JAXenter.com and JAX Magazine. She is well known to many in the Eclipse...

Our third Eclipse Newsletter of the year is out everyone! This issue is on the topic ' Success in the Eclipse Marketplace'! Due to the Eclipse Marketplace being the home to a huge variety of solutions from the Eclipse ecosystem, we at the Eclipse Foundation want to highlight the extraordinary...

The Jakarta EE 2019 Developer Survey, organized by the Jakarta EE Working Group, is now closed. The survey wrapped up at midnight on Monday, March 25, with over 1,770 responses from developers around the globe. Truly an outstanding response from an amazing community! Thank you all for taking the time...

We all know in this day and age, marketing and social media are essential. Social media is an effective way to stay connected with the Jakarta EE community. By informing the community about project milestones, progress, news around Jakarta EE, and how to become a contributor, you can help build...

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) requires that a project team engage in a successful progress or release review before creating a formal release. We use progress and release reviews as an opportunity to validate that a project team is following the open source rules of engagement, and are consistently implementing...

It is March already, and excitement for Jakarta EE is growing. The migration to Jakarta EE is almost complete! In the wake of the successful launch of the Java EE 8-compatible Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 in January, we are keeping our sights set firmly forward. We will continue to work towards...

The Eclipse Development Process has a notion of phases. Two of those phases are Incubation and Mature. While in both of these phases, an Eclipse open source project operates in basically the same manner: only committers can push content, committers are brought on board by election, committers accept contributions, and...