About Us September was a big month for the ECD Tools WG, but before we jump into these exciting community updates, here is a brief reminder about what we do. The Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group (ECD Tools WG) is a vendor-neutral open source collaboration that focuses on defining...
The Eclipse IDE is the project that started it all for the Eclipse Foundation. From the beginning, Eclipse IDE was meant to run on multiple platforms; it now supports Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. Since it is written in Java, it also supports multiple processor architectures. However, support for...
Welcome to the fortieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status shows some progress! We now have twelve specifications approved and four ballots that started last week. There are thirteen that are close to being ready for ballots and only six that need a little...
Today is exactly one year since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation. It started out as expected, with a lot of speaking engagement at developer conferences around the World as well as an increased online presence and activity in the community. Then Covid-19 hit...
You don’t want to miss these Jakarta EE talks at EclipseCon 2020. You may also want to check out the talks in the Cloud Native Java category. Visit the event site for full information about the talks and the speakers. This year’s EclipseCon is a free, virtual event. Please register...
Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here is this week’s Jakarta EE 9 Specification Status. Since there were no ballots that closed this week, there are still ten approved and two ballots ongoing. These two will end on Tuesday. Eight specifications are almost ready for their ballot...
Eclipse open source project teams are required to maintain a record of intellectual property contributions. We refer to this as the IP Log As part of the release review process, Eclipse project teams submit their IP Log for review by the Eclipse IP Team. For many years, Eclipse project teams...
Java is a major technology focus area for many members of the Eclipse community, and EclipseCon is always a great opportunity to expand and deepen your knowledge in this space. Last year’s EclipseCon featured about 20 Java-related sessions, and they’ve been popular YouTube replays. This year’s EclipseCon features another great...
One of the benefits of hosting your open source project at the Eclipse Foundation is the Eclipse Foundation’s Intellectual Property (IP) Policy and the IP Due Diligence Process that supports it. Eclipse project team are responsible for tracking their own IP and for ensuring that all third-party content is compatible...
Welcome to the thirty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Time for this week’s cake, or pie (chart) to be specific… The current status for Jakarta EE 9 is that ten specifications have been approved, two ballots are ongoing and five are almost ready for ballot. The only specifications that have...