Foundation

Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe will be the first time the best and brightest minds from the Java ecosystem and the Kubernetes ecosystem come together at one event to collaborate and share their expertise. The all-day event on March 30 includes expert talks, demos...

On behalf of the Jakarta EE Working Group, I am excited to announce the unanimous approval of the plan for Jakarta EE 9, with an anticipated mid-2020 release. Please note that the project team believes this timeline is aggressive, so think of this as a plan of intent with early...

Today we are launching our new Edge Native Working Group to help drive the industry platform for edge computing. The new group has hit the ground running with everything needed to accelerate adoption of enterprise applications at the edge: a mature code base that’s already widely deployed in production environments...

The Eclipse community is seriously on a roll these days. Hot on the heels of the Eclipse Che 7 release, we just announced the Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools Working Group, a vendor-neutral, open source collaboration that will focus on the evolution of development tools for, and in, the cloud...

A major version release within the Eclipse Foundation community always provides us a reason to celebrate, congratulate, and thank all those who participated and contributed to the process. The delivery today of Eclipse Che 7 is no exception. But Che 7’s arrival is more than great news for the Eclipse...

Today, with the release of Jakarta EE 8, we’ve entered a new era in Java innovation. Under an open, vendor-neutral process, a diverse community of the world’s leading Java organizations, hundreds of dedicated developers, and Eclipse Foundation staff have delivered the Jakarta EE 8 Full Platform, Web Profiles, and related...

Marc Andreessen once famously said, “ Software is eating the world.” He was right, software gobbled up industry sectors as varied as financial services, automotive, mining, healthcare, and entertainment. Companies of all sizes have leveraged software to improve their business processes and adapt products to a digital economy. And then...

With the proliferation of AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G, IoT, and other industrial use cases that require lightning-fast data processing, edge computing has emerged over the past few years as a way to address the limitations of existing cloud architectures to process information and deliver services at the “IoT edge”. Instead...

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...