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Here’s to 2019! ? For 2019, the Eclipse Newsletter has some exciting topics that are coming your way. Typically, we feature articles written by technical experts from our community that revolve around a specific theme. Our goal with the newsletter is to deliver great content that educates, motivates, and inspires...

Recently, the streaming data analytics startup Confluent announced that it had closed a $125 million Series D funding round. With the company’s value pegged at $2.5 billion, Confluent became the latest open source “unicorn.” To say that the open source community is on a roll would be an understatement. In...

Saturday, February 2, 2019 marks the 15th birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. That was the day that it was publicly and officially announced, and the opening day of the first ever EclipseCon conference. The creation of the Eclipse Foundation was quite an event at the time. It was really the...

Just in time for the Eclipse 5.1 GA release January 29, 2019, we are happy to announce that our new Jakartablogs.ee blog aggregator is live! Jakartablogs.ee is the new blog home for our global community to stay up to date on the latest Jakarta EE news, technologies, best practices, and...

One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee. More generally, specification projects are aligned with...

Alexander posted an interesting tweet the other day. 92 different contributors to Eclipse in the last 3 months aka 4.10 . This is probably(not checked) a record high !!! https://t.co/AP6bHj5G3g — Alexander Kurtakov (@akurtakov) December 17, 2018 I decided to take a harder look at the data to see if...

On December 7/2018, the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors approved a new edition of the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) which introduces one particularly significant change, along with a small number of other useful changes. We rolled this new edition out on December 14/2018. Note that project teams who are familiar...

The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) includes an image that provides an overview of what goes into creating a new Specification Project. By creating, we mean the process of taking a Specification from an initial idea or concept through to the point where the necessary resources and permissions are in...

By now most of you are aware already that Oracle has contributed Java EE specification to open source, and into Eclipse Foundation. The Java enterprise community decided to rename the Java EE specification to Jakarta EE. Part of this huge transition to open source is changing the specification process. The...

The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process defines a general framework for developing specifications in open source at the Eclipse Foundation; it extends the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) by adding a few extra checks and balances. In the first installment of this series, we described the EDP; in this second installment, we...