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Those of you following Jakarta EE probably know that the upcoming Jakarta EE 8 release will be functionally equivalent to Java EE 8. The reason for this is that we want to prove that the transfer from Oracle is complete and that we are able to produce the processes, specifications, test suites and a compatible implementation through the Eclipse Foundation.

Apache Kafka is a community-distributed streaming platform that has three key capabilities: publish and subscribe to streams of records, store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way, and then process streams as they occur. Apache Kafka has several success cases in the Java world. This post will cover how to benefit from this powerful tool in the Jakarta EE/MicroProfile universe.

2 days left! Participate in our 5th annual IoT Developer Survey, organized by the Eclipse IoT Working Group! This survey is intended to deliver valuable insight into programming languages, platforms, and infrastructure for building IoT solutions. As an IoT developer, we want to hear from you! Responses will be collected until Friday, March 8th.

Welcome to the first issue of the Eclipse IoT Newsletter for 2019, a newsletter tailored to share Eclipse IoT community and industry news. Thank you to all the authors who contributed great articles and blogs! Check them out today!

Google’s Cloud IoT Edge. Amazon’s AWS IoT. Microsoft’s Azure Sphere. Baidu’s OpenEdge. There’s no shortage of platforms and initiatives promising to simplify the management of internet of things (IoT) devices, of which Gartner expects there will be 5 billion by 2020.

Eclipse IoT is a diverse set of IoT related projects. This blog post will talk a bit about the challenges and opportunities this brings. And it offers a starting point for interested parties, to join forces and create something that is more than the sum of its projects. Written by Jens Reimann, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.​

Participate in this year's IoT Developer Survey organized by the Eclipse IoT Working Group! Your input will help IoT industry stakeholders better understand the requirements, priorities, and perceptions of IoT developer communities. Responses will be collected until March 8, 2019, at 11:59 PM PT. Thank you for your participation!

After the success of the several IoT Days at Grenoble (2014 - 2018), we are back for a sixth edition of the Eclipse IoT Day Grenoble on February 19th, 2019. For this one day event, we have a great program that includes topics around Edge Computing, Smart cities, IoT in Space, Connected cars, as well as the Eclipse IoT core technologies. As we have several international speakers, the conference will happen in English.

The Eclipse Foundation yesterday announced the release of GlassFish 5.1, considered a major milestone release belying the modest increase in its version number.

That’s right, Eclipse Glassfish 5.1.0.RC2, the Jakarta EE implementation, has been published in maven central. Eclipse Glassfish 5.1.0 release is terribly close.