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'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info)
An anonymous reader quotes i-Programmer:
The results are in for the vote on the new name for Java Enterprise Edition, and unsurprisingly the voters have chosen Jakarta EE. The renaming has to happen because Oracle refused to let the name Java be used. The vote was to choose between two options - 'Jakarta EE' and 'Enterprise Profile'. According to Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation, almost 7,000 people voted, and over 64% voted in favour of Jakarta EE. The other finalist, "Enterprise Profile," came in at just 35.6% of the votes when voted ended last Friday.
"Other Java projects have also been renamed in Eclipse," notes SD Times. "Glassfish is now Eclipse Glassfish. The Java Community Process is now the Eclipse EE.next Working Group, and Oracle development management is now Eclipse Enterprise for Java Project Management Committee."
"Other Java projects have also been renamed in Eclipse," notes SD Times. "Glassfish is now Eclipse Glassfish. The Java Community Process is now the Eclipse EE.next Working Group, and Oracle development management is now Eclipse Enterprise for Java Project Management Committee."
Why was "Java" bad, exactly?
(Meanwhile no one is regretting moving to node.js and the like.)
How about Coffy McCoffeeface?
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Really? They can't even handle unicode, so maybe you should curb your enthusiasm.
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Actually no, the problems have nothing to do with Slashcode or perl. The problems were farther up stream. The entire Sourceforge family of web sites were down. This appears to be an infrastructure problem. A few days ago they were subject to a denial of service attack, and I suspect that caused some pieces of critical infrastructure to fall over. Slashdot is just one part of the bigger failure.
Today's DDoS attacks are nothing like what web sites experienced on 9/11, so comparing traffic to then is a bit silly.
Kudos to the admins for getting everything (SF.net, slashdot, etc) all back up and running. Must have been a pretty bad situation.
WTF you, going to keep spamming this shit everywhere? I've been around for years too, yes it's irritating, but I'm tired of seeing your damn comment repeatedly, it isn't helping. If anything you're contributing to DDoS issues, shut the fuck up, please.
Slashdot was down for two or three days and no explanation?
Sorry we inconvenienced you and interrupted your normal routine. It wasn't a fun time for us either, I can assure you. We inherited an aging setup in the acquisition that was located physically far away from us. We made a big investment in a new hardware set up, and ran into sizable issues including a massive DDOS during the process. Going forward we expect much better uptime. We will be dedicating a lot of time and resources this year to improving Slashdot.
Nailed it. Thank you
Weclome back! Please make this an announcement so everyone knows.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Sounds like a good idea for a... thread, on slashdot!
Yeah
so it's an apache project now ?
Nullius in verba
This won't work. People are still gonna know it's Java.
Seriously? Slashdot was offline for a couple of days. Go outside for a walk.
I've tried a ton of other websites. Reddit for example, which turned out to be 99% lame whining.
While Slashdot has its problems too, the discussion system is the best I've experienced and even if the comments are sometimes a little whacky, they always give me something to think about.
Thanks to the Slashdot team for keeping this place alive.
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why name it after a big dirty city with the worst traffic in the world which is also sinking?
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
I've been reading Slashdot since the mid-1970s. I remember how we used to wait for the pages to render on the Illiac IV. We would pass the time by playing table football with a piece of paper folded into a triangle, I became really good at that game and later turned pro, but had to retire after a brief career due to injuries. Hell, I still have mod points that date back to 1983. I'd use them, but now they're collectors items and worth a lot of money.
You kids don't know how good you got it. Not being able to access Slashdot for a week? Hell, when we voted in a Slashdot poll back in the day, it would take almost that long just to see the results. That was back when computing was done by men in white shortsleeve shirts and black neckties and we didn't have to worry about the SJWs forcing us to work with women and wear deodorant or refrain from scratching our nuts. We'd have ashtrays on top of the CPUs because everyone in computing back then smoked Parliaments.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yeah oh boy that was a tough choice bro .. Jakarta EE versus "Enterprise Profile" ??? wtf.
Seriously though, who the heck voted for Enterprise Profile? Trekkies?
Well reddit is a big place, I'll afree with you that the front page, and a lott of subreddits are rather mediocre, but 99% bad might be a bit pesimistic. I would sa 85-90% bad. Then again negative news/opinion travles further and faster then the posetive variaty, so it is not surprising.a few examples of mildly helpfull, or at least infarmative sub reddits : /r/postgresql /r/ipv6 /r/blackmagicdesign.
Seriously. Safari uses a "smart brackets" scheme to turn curly brackets into left and right brackets.Which is unicode. Slashdot just splatters it all over the place. A decade ago this might be semi acceptable as a lot of places where still using legacy code that made unicode fiddly to deal with, but in 2017 modern web frameworks handle unicode more or less transparently.
Granted Slashdot still runs off crusty old Perl, surely its not THAT hard to update to modern unicofe handling.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Slashdot being down wasn't too much of a problem, but the killer was that SourceForge was accessible only via HTTP, not via HTTPS. This broken things like CocoaPods (or Go or Rust's dependency schemes), so it was impossible to automatically fetch and build projects using this kind of tool if any of the dependencies were on SourceForge. I suspect that a lot of these projects are going to be cloning their dependencies on GitHub and moving their dependency over there. I built OSMAnd's iOS version during the downtime and had to manually patch the pod to grab one of the dependencies from a GitHub fork instead.
This wouldn't have mattered so much if there had been a 'We are currently experiencing a DDoS, please be patient' message on SourceForge, and if HTTP and HTTPS had been down (during an attack, being able to access the contents only via a mechanism that does nothing to prevent tampering made me very nervous). Instead, I was left with the feeling that SF is considered a legacy system that no one cares about. This is more or less how GNA worked in the months before they finally killed it.
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Sorry we inconvenienced you and interrupted your normal routine.
You did and it's unacceptable. I actually had to leave my basement during what normies call "daytime" or some such. I think we're all going to die because we appear to be far too close to a star for comfort.
We inherited an aging setup in the acquisition that was located physically far away from us.
How old is the infrasturcture?
I'm kind of curious: slashdot was a very high traffic site relative to many others back when the internet was much smaller, clouds were floofy blobs of tiny water drops and the only CDN most of had heard of was coralcache.
We will be dedicating a lot of time and resources this year to improving Slashdot.
I look forward to it, but for the sake of us old fogies, please keep the lovely javascript free mode. It's incredibly fast and nice to use on any compter.
Also, is sourceforge going to see some love? Github seems to be taking a lot of the mindshare these days, but it kind of sucks.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Slashdot can't handle unicovfefe.
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Granted Slashdot still runs off crusty old Perl, surely its not THAT hard to update to modern unicofe handling.
Ultimately, deprioritization of Unicode handling in Slash is related to the "erocS" incident from 2002, where vandals would use certain control characters to spoof moderation scores.
The Greeks want their name back. "Providing wise and insightful counsel." You are damaging the brand image.
Have gnu, will travel.
...is the reason it happened. Namely: Oracle has abandoned Java EE to the community and won't develop it further. I was under the impression that it still was pretty important in the enterprise web application scene. Why would they abandon it?
Anyway, it doesn't look good for Java EE. Without the financial support of a big company how can it hope to remain relevant?