Mike Milinkovich's blog

We’ve been fielding a number of questions lately about the intersection of our spec process and patents. A couple of these community discussions have gone off in directions that are off target, factually incorrect, or both. Therefore, the purpose of this short FAQ is to explain the patent license options...

On Tuesday, the Eclipse ioFog project team announced the release of Eclipse ioFog 2.0, and I invite everyone to join me in congratulating them and the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group for the achievement. Thanks to the community’s efforts, the release delivers new EdgeOps functionality that makes it faster and...

With the transition of the Open VSX Registry from TypeFox to the Eclipse Foundation, the industry now has a vendor-neutral and publicly hosted open source alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace for VS Code extensions. The move increases transparency and flexibility for extension users, extension publishers, and tool developers...

I’m happy to share the news that Eclipse Jetty 11 has been released and certified as compatible with the Jakarta Servlet v5.0 specification. Released as part of Jakarta EE 9, this new version of the Servlet specification uses the new jakarta.* namespace. Often referred to as the “Big Bang”, this...

Today we announced the creation of the Adoptium Working Group, whose mission is to bring high-quality, open source Java runtimes to millions of developers building the next generation of enterprise applications. Adoptium was created in collaboration with the AdoptOpenJDK Technical Steering Committee, and supports the Eclipse Adoptium top-level project. The...

We at the Eclipse Foundation have watched with mounting concern the recent violent attacks on people of Asian descent. We condemn these actions and the bigotry that has driven them in the strongest possible terms. As an organization we stand in support of Asian people. Overcoming racism represents arguably the...

This is a continuation of yesterday’s Welcome to the Eclipse Foundation AISBL blog. Yesterday, we announced that we completed our move to European-based governance with the creation of Eclipse Foundation AISBL, a Belgian international nonprofit association. In this post, I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an overview of...

Today, we’re announcing that the Eclipse Foundation has successfully completed all of the necessary formalities and has formally established the Eclipse Foundation AISBL, an international non-profit association based in Brussels, Belgium. As a European-based global organization, the Eclipse Foundation is in the ideal position to build on the growing momentum...

For some reason, the tradition amongst most technology pundits is to spend the waning weeks and days of the past year making prognostications about what’s to come. I’m all for introspection, but making guesses right before the holidays usually means I’m going to forget what I said (wrote?) after my...

The Jakarta EE 9 platform release announced during today’s JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference has a notable change: The package namespace is now jakarta.* instead of javax.*. Moving all the specification APIs to the jakarta namespace (sometimes referred to as the “big bang”) is a simple, but very significant, update that...