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Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-beginning dept.

Oracle has chosen the Eclipse Foundation to be the new home of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), the company announced this week. Oracle made the decision in collaboration with IBM and Red Hat, the two other largest contributors to the platform. From a report: "The Eclipse Foundation has strong experience and involvement with Java EE and related technologies," wrote Oracle software evangelist David Delabassee in a blog post. This will help us transition Java EE rapidly, create community-friendly processes for evolving the platform, and leverage complementary projects such as MicroProfile. We look forward to this collaboration." Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, is optimistic about this move, which he said is exactly what the enterprise Java needs and what the community has been hoping for.

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  1. I think it's a good choice by supertrooper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As Eclipse IDE user maybe I'm bias, but at least things are moving in the right direction

    1. Re:I think it's a good choice by ledow · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The right direction being "Oracle washing their hands of it and having nothing more to do with it as they can't monetise it", so yes. This is definitely going in the right direction.

      At least they didn't just kill it off and bury it, like some of the other things they took over.

      Oracle's touch is like a death-knell to everything from Solaris to OpenOffice.

  2. Re:JBoss Development? by MtHuurne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As far as I know JBoss is owned by Red Hat, so I wouldn't expect any news about it from Oracle. Since Java EE is a spec, not a code base, this move is good news for other implementations, as it means Java EE can continue without Oracle if needed.