Blog Posts

Yes. The rumours are true. I will star in the next Marvel film! Alright, alright. That’s a lie, but it is true that I am leaving my Marketing Specialist position at the Eclipse Foundation after nearly 6 years. The beginning To be honest, I don’t remember applying for the job...

TL;DR Infrastructure improvements and migration described in last year post is eventually happening, with some tweaks. As of today, more than 250 Eclipse projects use the build infrastructure at the Eclipse Foundation. For a year now, we’re planning how the infrastructure can be scaled and expanded to keep up with...

As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect across the European Union on Friday, May 25. GDPR sets out to provide individuals with more control over their personal data. At the Eclipse Foundation, we take your online privacy and the protection of your personal data...

Last September Oracle announced , with the support of IBM and Red Hat, that Java EE was going to move to the Eclipse Foundation. Since then Fujitsu, Payara and Tomitribe have all joined the initiative with strategic-level commitments. The scale of this migration is huge, and if you’re interested in...

TL;DR Projects hosted by the Eclipse Foundation will soon benefit from a brand new enterprise-grade continuous integration (CI) infrastructure. Expected improvements are: resiliency, scalability and nimbleness. We are doing this move with tremendous support from our friends at CloudBees and RedHat with their respective products Jenkins Enterprise and OpenShift Container...

Executive Summary The IoT Developer Survey 2018 collected feedback from 502 individuals between January and March 2018. The key findings in this year’s edition of the survey include the following: Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are the top 2 cloud services for IoT. Google Cloud Platform is failing to get...

I am pleased to announce a new look and feel for www.eclipse.org, codenamed Quicksilver, and a new logo for the Eclipse Foundation which Mike Milinkovich, the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, has blogged about. The main goal of the redesign is to highlight the Eclipse Foundation as more than...

Since the beginning of the Eclipse Foundation in 2004 we have had two corporate logos, both of which happened to be the same logo as used by the Eclipse IDE. For a long time that was a good idea, as the Eclipse IDE was definitely our flagship project. However, as...

We are now about six months into the process of migrating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, and I think we’re all learning a lot as we go. I wanted to take a moment and take stock of the scale of this project, its complexity, and where we are. Java...

It’s now been a bit over two months since the participants to the Open IoT Challenge have started to work on their projects, and like every year, I am pretty impressed by the creativity and the technical skills of all the teams. There are about 12 teams actively participating and...