For some reason, the tradition amongst most technology pundits is to spend the waning weeks and days of the past year making prognostications about what’s to come. I’m all for introspection, but making guesses right before the holidays usually means I’m going to forget what I said (wrote?) after my...
The Eclipse Foundation held our first ever virtual EclipseCon in 2020. Featuring ten different tracks including one dedicated to Cloud Native Java, the October conference was a massive success, bringing together familiar and fresh faces all with a shared passion for Eclipse technologies. Featuring thirteen sessions over three days, the...
Good news! Contributor Matt Booth has created a Maven plugin for the Eclipse Dash License Tool. The first step is to clone the repository and run the build: $ git clone git@github.com:eclipse-dash/dash-licenses.git $ cd dash-licenses $ mvn clean install This will install the plugin into your local Maven cache. With...
Welcome to the fifty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! It’s 2021 and a year since I wrote the very first Hashtag Jakarta EE. I find it useful for myself to write these short recaps of what’s going on in the community, and I hope you enjoy them...
Welcome to the fifty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the last Hashtag Jakarta EE in 2020. But don’t worry, I will continue these weekly updates in 2021 as well. This week, MicroProfile 4.0 was released! It’s been a long wait since the previous release ( 3.3) back in...
This post concludes the mini-series about how Jakarta MVC 2.0 moves through the steps involved in the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP). All the posts are listed here, so bookmark this page for reference if you are involved in, or planning to be involved in a Jakarta EE specification...
During 2020 we began to witness the coming of age of open source Cloud Development Tool technologies and increased adoption of those technologies, along with the acceleration of remote workplace practices. My prediction is that 2021 will be a tipping point for Open Source Cloud IDEs and associated technologies. Innovation...
Boasting an audience of over 2,500 IoT enthusiasts, the Virtual IoT Meetup Group brings together a world-wide network of developers dedicated to discovering and creating new technologies that will make it easier to create IoT applications. In 2020, the group gathered four times through Eclipse Foundation organized events to discuss...
As Edge Computing architectures and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to grow throughout multiple vertical markets, one trend that enterprises have made abundantly clear is that, in 2021, they expect their edge computing solutions and IoT technologies to be based on or leverage open source. This was confirmed in...
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...