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Oracle Says It Is 'Committed' To Java EE 8 -- Amid Claims It Quietly Axed Future Development (theregister.co.uk)
Media reports, citing anonymous Oracle engineers, noted earlier this week that development of Java EE (Enterprise Edition) projects at Oracle had been "practically ceased" since last fall. This led many to wonder about the future of Java. Well, it's all cosy, says Oracle. The software firm assures that it is "committed" to Java. The Register reports: The Redwood City titan said it will present fresh plans for the future of Java EE 8 at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco in September. Version eight is due to be released in the first half of 2017. However, over the past six months, it appeared Oracle had pretty much ceased development of the enterprise edition -- a crucial component in hundreds of thousands of business applications -- and instead quietly focused its engineers on other products and projects. Oracle spokesman Mike Moeller tonight sought to allay those fears, and said a plan for the future of Java EE is brewing. "Oracle is committed to Java and has a very well defined proposal for the next version of the Java EE specification -- Java EE 8 -- that will support developers as they seek to build new applications that are designed using micro-services on large-scale distributed computing and container-based environments on the Cloud," said Moeller.
They are LIARS!!!
The article refers to Java EE, not Java specifically. EE is a whole other kettle of finish on top of Java, and it's used primarily by large companies who have the resources and manpower to figure out how to use EE in the first place.
Oracle wants sole control of Java EE, because there would be a great deal of money to be made. At least there would be in the short and medium term, for as long as Oracle has these companies by the balls, in the same way they do with their database and other software.
Unfortunately, they can't just "take control" of Java EE, cause it's a community-based system, so they were hoping to just quietly abandon it and roll a completely different - and proprietary - stack instead. Apparently it occurred to someone at the last minute that this would be a monumentally idiotic decision, and doing so would destroy Java in the same way Oracle has already completely fucked up MySQL, OpenOffice, Hudson, etc.