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At the Eclipse Foundation, we are excited to be sponsoring the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024, taking place in Brussels on February 2, 2024. This event brings together policymakers, industry leaders, and open source experts to discuss the key challenges and opportunities of open source in Europe.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Nashville Java User Group. The JUG was rebooted last year and now features monthly meetups. So far, every speaker has been a Java Champion and there is pizza and drinks at every event. My talk about migrating from Spring Boot 2...

We’re thrilled to share that the Eclipse Foundation has signed a collaboration agreement with the OpenAtom Foundation, China’s first open source foundation. Together, we will be driving the development of Oniro, an open source project that builds upon the versatile OpenHarmony operating system. Our aim is to create a modular...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week continued with discussions around Java versions. The latest update is that the Jakarta EE Specification Committee wants to do a Progress Review of the planned Jakarta EE 11 release. This is all according to the Jakarta EE...

On Thursday, I attended the JCP 25th Anniversary Celebration event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. This is the third time the anniversary was held at this location. It was great meeting up with friends in the Java community and having some of the traditional JCP Paella. Of...

Over the past few years at the Eclipse Foundation, I have gotten to know the community through numerous projects and events. The more people I meet, the more it reinforces my belief that our values are a big part of what makes the foundation special. Our community consists of members...

Last year, I created a course titled Jakarta EE Overview on LinkedIn Learning. As the title reveals, the course gives you an overview of Jakarta EE. You are guided through the purpose of Jakarta EE and which specifications it is good to know about. Further on, the course goes through...

Open VSX is an open source registry for VS Code extensions, providing a decentralized and community-driven alternative to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Created to foster collaboration and innovation, Open VSX offers developers a space to share, discover, and contribute to a growing repository of extensions.

Eclipse Cloud DevTools Contributor Award 2023 goes to EclipseSource and TypeFox in acknowledgment of their enormous, continuous, strategic, and sustainable contributions to the Eclipse Cloud DevTools ecosystem.

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twelve of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned in last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE, there has been a change to the targeted Java version for Jakarta EE 11. In addition to supporting Java 21, the Jakarta EE Platform project is also planning to...