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    Cloud Tool Time: a webinar series for cloud development tools

    by Hudson Kelly

    Launched in November 2020, the Cloud Tool Time webinar series aims to educate, innovate and engage with the fast growing cloud development tools community. The Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools working group has produced two webinar sessions to date, with promising community support and turnout for both sessions. Looking to...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #51

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to the fifty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As we are ramping down to close 2020 and recharge for 2021, there are still things going on in the community. First, I would like to point you to the Studio Jakarta EE LIVE I had with Dalia this week where...

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    Jakarta MVC 2.0 Released

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Jakarta MVC 2.0 passed the release review ballot and is now ratified as a final specification according to the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP). The last steps for the project team after the ballot are to release the staged artifacts to Maven Central and verify that all published information...

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    Virtual Eclipse Community Meetups - 2020 Year in Review

    by Hudson Kelly

    Virtual events and webinars have surged this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As organizations made the shift, we saw an abundance of new webinar streams come to life. For the Eclipse Foundation, this included the shift of EclipseCon 2020 to a virtual event, the inception of ECD Tool Time...

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    A New Era for the Open VSX Registry

    by Brian King

    Last week on December 9, we completed the transition of the public instance of the Open VSX Registry at https://open-vsx.org to the Eclipse Foundation. I previously wrote about this , and the implications for you, especially if you publish extensions. This post is a followup with some reminders and further...

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    Planning for Jakarta EE 9.1

    by Ivar Grimstad

    In the December 15 Platform Project call, the platform team made a couple of important decisions regarding the upcoming Jakarta EE 9.1 release. The goal of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to ship Java SE 11 support as soon as possible. That means that we want to minimize releasing new API...

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    The Top 3 Jakarta Tech Talks of 2020

    by Hudson Kelly

    With a record 18 sessions in 2020 and over 1400 attendees, the Jakarta Tech Talk webinar series has grown at an incredible rate since its 2019 inception. Our cloud native Java community has continued to share & engage in a common passion for learning about new and updated technologies. In...

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    Hashtag Jakarta EE #50

    by Ivar Grimstad

    Welcome to the fiftieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Wow, fifty hashtags so far! Tuesday was a big day for the Jakarta EE community. That was the day of JakartaOne Livestream 2020. With this event, we officially announced Jakarta EE 9, even though it has been available in Maven Central...

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    Tooling for Jakarta EE

    by Ivar Grimstad

    I am happy to announce the first Studio Jakarta EE LIVE! And what a start! I have the honor of having Dalia Abo Sheasha as my special guest in this session. Dalia works as Developer Advocate at JetBrains, and the topic of this LIVE session is tooling support for Jakarta...

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