I’m running for election to the affiliate member seat on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation. If you are an OSI affiliate organization, I would appreciate your vote. Here is a little information about why I am running for the...
Our Jakarta EE Working group is growing! Please meet our new member jadeva GmbH! We talked to the enthusiastic and engaging duo Stephan Zubke, CTO is one of the initial founders of the company, and Claudia Geiger, CEO of the company, who provided a bit more information about the company...
Dropping barriers to open up opportunities for contribution is a critical activity for Eclipse open source projects. Ideally, Eclipse open source project teams should be actively soliciting contribution, growing participation in the project, and otherwise being good open source citizens. Minimally, though, Eclipse project teams must engage in practices that...
Intellectual property management is important for Eclipse projects. As a committer, you are our first line of defense when it comes to identifying and mitigating intellectual property issues. Over the past year or so, you’ve likely heard and seen rumblings of some of the innovations that we’ve been making in...
Welcome to the sixty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Tanja and I have been touring JUGs over the last couple of months. So far, we have visited JUGs (virtually) in India, South Africa, Sweden, Serbia, the USA, Poland, Germany, and Spain. And we don’t want to stop there! Please reach...
About Us The Eclipse Cloud DevTools (ECD Tools) Working Group is a vendor-neutral open source collaboration that focuses on defining, promoting and implementing tools for cloud-native development. ECD Tools accelerates the adoption of Cloud IDE and container-based workspace management, through the adoption of standards, engagement with third party developer tool...
The Eclipse Foundation has a policy regarding the resolution and responsible disclosure of identified vulnerabilities. The short version is that this is one of the rare areas where open source transparency and openness ideals may be curtailed for a period of time while a vulnerability is addressed privately; but that...
Welcome to the sixtieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned last week, the release plan for Jakarta EE 9.1 has been published. The target release date is the end of March 2021. GlassFish 6.1 now compiles and runs on Java SE 11, and the work with getting it...
2021 is off to an exciting start at the Eclipse Foundation, with the formal establishment of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL, the launch of our IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey, and several other initiatives in progress. To help you keep track of everything going on in the Eclipse community, we’re...
Welcome to the fifty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I wrote a post about Compatible implementations of Jakarta EE specifications and how to get listed on the specification pages. This week, we got LeadPony Joy 2.1.0 listed as a compatible implementation of Jakarta JSON Processing 2.0. Great work...