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It’s that time of year again! You can now submit your proposals to be part of EclipseCon Europe 2019’s speaker lineup. The conference takes place in Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 21 - 24, 2019. Early bird submissions are due July 1, and the final deadline is July 15. EclipseCon Europe...

Industry leaders Red Hat, Eurotech and Cloudera turned to the Eclipse IoT Working Group to overcome common challenges and provide their customers with an end-to-end IoT solution. This case study describes the difficulties each company faced and how they managed to meet customer expectations with the help of the Eclipse...

The Jakarta EE Working Group charter identifies three key committees to drive the various facets of the working group for which there are elected positions to be filled: the Steering Committee, the Specification Committee, and the Marketing and Brand Committee. The elected positions are to represent each of the Enterprise...

EclipseCon Europe is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies, share best practices, and more. Taking in place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 21-24, 2019, ECE 2019 is our biggest event of the year and connects the Eclipse ecosystem and the industry’s...

The world’s leading innovators in Java, including Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Payara, Red Hat, and Tomitribe, are collaborating at the Eclipse Foundation to advance enterprise Java technologies to support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile offer a path for migrating Java EE legacy...

The Jakarta EE community is the driving force behind the future of cloud-native Java. Active participation represents the best way to drive the vendor-neutral and rapid innovation necessary to modernize enterprise systems for cloud use cases. That said, we’d like to make sure that the community is kept up-to-speed with...

The results of the 2019 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are out. Almost 1,800 Java developers from around the world have spoken. Taken together with the engagement and response to my recent posts on the future of Jakarta EE (see my latest blog here), the survey makes clear the developer community...

I’d like to thank the community for the level of engagement we’ve seen in response to my post from last week. This post, which again represents the consensus view of the Jakarta EE Steering Committee, answers some questions about Jakarta EE 8, which is planned as the initial release of...

The Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) is an agreement made by contributors certifying the work they are contributing was authored by them and/or they have the legal authority to contribute as open source under the terms of the project license. The Eclipse Foundation’s IP Team has been working hard to get...

Summary of progress to date and implications of the agreement between Eclipse and Oracle on Jakarta EE and use of Java trademarks and the javax namespace. Introduction The migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation has been an enormous effort on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation staff and the...