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Moving to a Foundation

2025-5-7   team   Matej Novotny

Just like other projects in the ecosystem around us (WildFly, SmallRye, RESTEasy, Undertow, …​), Weld too has been looking for a friendly vendor-neutral place it could inhabit - a software foundation.
It is our hope that by joining a foundation we can make Weld more open, expand the community, improve transparency and encourage participation from contributors coming from all over the software landscape.

Things to Keep in Mind

When choosing a foundation to join, there are several importants things to consider:

  • Ability to use the tooling we currently have to minimize the impact of the move. For instance, we still use JIRA for issues.

  • Maintain the ability to perform quick release when needed and at flexible intervals.

  • As a project, retain independence in decision-making. I.e. if possible do not fall under foundation imposed restrictions and rules.

What Does the Move Entail?

Red Hat has always been supportive of open source and collaboration in vendor-neutral projects and this is still the case; Red Hat bussiness leaders are fully supportive of this move.
Furthermore, we, as in the Weld team, aim to keep working on the project and supporting it just like we did up until now.

Current Status

At the moment we are eyeing the option to move along with WildFly under the Commonhaus Foundation.

Community Feedback

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this so don’t hesitate to speak through the mailing list or via a discussion topic directly in the GitHub repository.

Best Regards
Matej

Red Hat Middleware Strategy

2025-3-27   team   Matej Novotny

By now you might have heard that Red Hat announced significant changes to their middleware strategy last month.
Let me start by saying that this has come as a surprise to us as we were not aware of it in advance.
Nonetheless, here we are, and I wanted to provide Weld community with some context as well as talk about how this affects the project.

If you want to read the official announcement, it can be found on the Red Hat blog.
In short, some key points from the article are:

  • Red Hat’s Middleware and Integration Engineering and Products teams are moving to IBM in May/June 2025.

  • Red Hat will continue to sell and support its Middleware and Integration offerings as they do today; this will not be impacted.

  • All transitioning Red Hat technology will remain open source and continue to follow an upstream-first development model.

I do not anticipate this change having any significant impact on Weld project perhaps with the exception of a temporary disruption during the transition period.
We remain committed to development of Weld as the compatible implementation of Jakarta CDI specification as well as its standalone capabilities.
The project remains open source and contributions as well as bug reports are still very much welcome!

For Weld team
Matej

Weld team changes

2018-7-10   team   Martin Kouba

I’m pleased to announce a couple of changes coming to the Weld team.

First of all, Matěj Novotný will be taking over the leadership of the project. Matěj has proven himself to be an excellent engineer, contributing not only to Weld projects but also to the CDI specification and TCK development. I’m really happy that I can hand over the leadership to this guy!

Matěj’s primary task is leading the project towards "Java 11 world" and to meet the other challenges such as reactive programming model enhancements.

Secondly, Nikoleta Žiaková is joining the team as a quality engineer. She’s going to work on expanding our testsuites and improving our continuous integration.

Last but not least, I’m not going to leave the project but stay as a contributor focused on related technologies such as WildFly, Thorntail and MicroProfile.

Martin

Weld team changes

2015-9-8   team   Jozef Hartinger

I am pleased to announce a couple of changes coming to the Weld team:

First of all, Martin will be taking over leadership of the project. Martin has proven himself to be an excellent engineer over all the years and I am happy that I can leave the project in his hands. His primary task is going to be leading the project towards the Weld 3 milestone.

Secondly, I will be moving to work temporarily on a different project. I truly enjoyed working on Weld and with the CDI community. Now after almost 4 years on the project I was given an exciting opportunity which I decided to pursuit.

Last but not least, Matěj Novotný is joining the team as a quality engineer. He’s going to work on expanding our testsuites and making sure Weld releases do not break anything :-)

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