Welcome to the sixty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We have a date for Jakarta EE 9.1! Eclipse GlassFish 6.1.0.RC1 passes the Jakarta EE 9.1 TCK and is available for download. The TCK project is in the process of wrapping up everything for the release. We plan to initiate the...
The Eclipse community spans a large number of projects, working groups, and members, and the numbers are continuing to grow. We work together to achieve great things, and it’s important to share this progress with the greater open source community by getting media coverage. That’s why the Eclipse Foundation marketing...
We are pleased to announce the Alpha release of Eclipse Theia Blueprint, a downloadable template tool for Eclipse Theia, including desktop installers for all major operating systems. It can be used to evaluate the capabilities of Eclipse Theia on the desktop as well as to serve as a “blueprint” upon...
Welcome to the sixty-seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most exciting things that happened in the Jakarta EE space this week is that the Jakarta EE Platform project decided to start working on a new Jakarta EE Core Profile. The Pull Request to start the process of...
Surveys often seem to come around when we’re busiest and feel we can’t afford to take time to answer questions. However, a few minutes of your time can have important benefits down the road to everyone in the Java ecosystem. Now in its fourth year, the Jakarta EE Developer Survey...
Welcome to the sixty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is on track for the mid-May release. GlassFish 6.1 now passes the TCK and a release candidate will be made available this week. Meanwhile, the work with planning for the next Jakarta EE release goes on. We are...
Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation spoke to leading Java developers around the world to discuss why they rely on Jakarta EE and the unique benefits of using Jakarta EE technologies. Their input is captured in our white paper, which describes the important advantages Jakarta EE offers today and...
With the transition of the Open VSX Registry from TypeFox to the Eclipse Foundation, the industry now has a vendor-neutral and publicly hosted open source alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace for VS Code extensions. The move increases transparency and flexibility for extension users, extension publishers, and tool developers...
Welcome to the sixty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It looks like Jakarta EE 9.1 may be delivered sometime in May. The Jakarta EE Platform project discussed the possibility for a release date in mid-May at this week’s platform call. There are still a couple of details to be sorted...
A new resource is now available to make it easy to try out Eclipse Che. If you are new to Che, it is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native IDE that runs in containers. Running in Kubernetes brings sidecar containers, developer environment as code (automating setup). This means that you can code...