Open Source

EE4J Code Arrives

Monday, January 15, 2018 - 11:51 by Mike Milinkovich
Last week the EE4J project achieved an important milestone when the source code for the API and reference implementation of JSON-P JSR-374 project was pushed by Dmitry Kornilov into its GitHub repository in the EE4J organization. This is the first project of the initial nine proposed to reach this stage...

Introducing EE4J: The first step towards Java EE at the Eclipse Foundation

Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 20:30 by Mike Milinkovich
I am very excited and proud to introduce the new top-level Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) project . For those that might not have heard, Oracle has announced their intention to move Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. Creating the EE4J top-level project is the first step to making this...

On making standards organizations and open source communities work hand in hand

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 11:08 by Benjamin Cabé
Did you know that the Eclipse Foundation is home to many open source implementations of industry standards? From IETF to ISO to oneM2M or OASIS, we have many open source projects that provide industrial-grade implementations that anyone can use to evaluate a given standard, or to effectively use it in...

Investing in Eclipse Tools

Friday, January 15, 2016 - 11:03 by Mike Milinkovich
Yesterday I talked about three interesting new runtime projects which have joined the Eclipse community, and made the point that we are extending our reach beyond our “…original comfort zone of tools…”. But that doesn’t mean that we are not seriously investing in tools. In fact, in 2016 the Eclipse...

A Great Start to 2016

Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 15:22 by Mike Milinkovich
Yesterday was quietly one of the biggest days ever for Eclipse. That is because of three new project proposals that went live. It’s certainly unusual for us to have three new projects at once, but I’m not sure if it’s unprecedented. However, I am really excited about these projects, and...