Mike Milinkovich's blog

From all of us at the Eclipse Foundation, we’d like to wish the LGBTQ+ community a happy Pride Month. As June winds down, we’d like to recognize the Eclipse Community’s continuing efforts to foster an open and welcoming environment for everyone.  Our Community Code of Conduct outlines the standards of...

Open source software is the single most important engine for innovation today. The ability to freely combine software components, frameworks, and platforms frees developers from constantly reinventing the wheel and allows them to focus on the new innovations that users want. Free software also enables business models to scale in...

The launch of the Adoptium Marketplace on May 26 is exciting news for the millions of developers, researchers, and organizations who rely on TCK-tested compatible Java runtimes. As noted in the announcement, by providing a vendor neutral home for the OpenJDK ecosystem, the marketplace makes it easier than ever to...

As everyone who is involved in the software industry is well aware, security is a significant topic these days. In particular, open source supply chain security is top of mind across the entire ICT industry. The Eclipse Foundation, its community, its projects, and its working groups all have a strong...

Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Eclipse IDE Working Group. A year ago, the Eclipse Foundation launched this Working Group focused on the Eclipse IDE and the Eclipse Simultaneous Release (SimRel). We would like to share some of our successes since the launch of the Working Group...

For over 20 years the Eclipse IDE platform, along with the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), have provided core technologies for building richly featured language IDEs, products, and applications that are portable across Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops. However, time moves on and the next generation of desktop products and...

In less than six minutes of your time, you can let the entire cloud native Java industry know what you need to support modern enterprise applications. The Jakarta EE Developer Survey is one of the largest developer surveys in the Java landscape, and the number of responses it generates clearly...

Today the Eclipse Foundation is announcing a new working group dedicated to developing a new and innovative software platform for the world’s automotive industry. The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) initiative has the support of leading companies across the automotive, IT, cloud, and services industries, all of which are necessary...

The Eclipse Foundation supports Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion, an unprovoked act of aggression on a peaceful neighbor. This war directly impacts over 30 Eclipse Foundation committers who live and work in Ukraine. Many of them work on the Eclipse Che project, which was named after the city...

Open source plays a vital role in today’s software-driven world. It’s shifted from commoditizing existing technologies, to the way new innovations achieve mainstream adoption. This can be seen in the many examples of industry-leading tools and technologies that are built on open source software, such as Eclipse ioFog, Eclipse Theia...