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The Jakarta EE 2019 Developer Survey, organized by the Jakarta EE Working Group, is now closed. The survey wrapped up at midnight on Monday, March 25, with over 1,770 responses from developers around the globe. Truly an outstanding response from an amazing community! Thank you all for taking the time...

The Eclipse IoT Working Group is pleased to launch the 2019 IoT Developer Survey. If you are involved in developing Internet of Things solutions and services, we want to hear from you! The purpose of the survey is to gain a better understanding of the requirements, priorities, and perceptions of...

Just in time for the Eclipse 5.1 GA release January 29, 2019, we are happy to announce that our new Jakartablogs.ee blog aggregator is live! Jakartablogs.ee is the new blog home for our global community to stay up to date on the latest Jakarta EE news, technologies, best practices, and...

One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee. More generally, specification projects are aligned with...

The Eclipse Architecture Council is in the process of making a change to how the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines the Reviews that Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in. Foremost on our minds is the nature of Release Reviews which the EDP current requires ahead of all...

Spoiler alert: 162 million! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code. But beyond this number, let’s look...

This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was recently published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is easy. All you have...

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java 9 applications without additional configuration. Download or update today. Out...

The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (and the other Java developer variants) is itself a Java application that’s used to build Java applications. That relationship can be a bit weird to wrap your brain around. Written almost entirely in Java, the Eclipse IDE requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to...

Intellectual Property Policy Changes Implementation You’ve likely heard about the introduction of a new type of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The short version is that our Type A Due Diligence involves a license certification only and our Type B Due Diligence provides our traditional license...