Java Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 05 from the editor PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ADLER THE VERBATIM AGENCY In an unexpected and widely applauded move Oracle announced just before the JavaOne conference this year that it would be moving development of Java EE to the open source community This action effectively unthinkable a few years ago is being done by giving control of development technologies and of project governance to the Eclipse Foundation Included in this transition are the full source code of the diferent reference implementations and of the many test suites that ensure conformance and compliance with Java EE specification requirements This migration shows emphatically that Oracle is giving the technology to the community That is this move should not be confused with the occasional dumping of technologies to open source foundations by companies no longer interested in supporting them a phenomenon known as abandon ware Rather Oracle has pledged to move its commercial Java EE ofering Oracle WebLogic to conformance with Java EE 8 and to continue contributing to the development and evolution of the standards along with vendors Red Hat IBM Tomitribe and Payara as well as the large contributing community of developers The Eclipse Foundation was chosen to be the host due in part to its previous experience hosting Java EE technologies such as JPA and JSON B In addition it currently hosts the complementary MicroProfile project which is examined in detail on page 56 in this issue Conversations with Eclipse oficials revealed that they expect the transition to take approximately a year Why so long Not only do dozens of codebases and supporting documents need to be migrated to Eclipse servers but a substantial amount of policy needs Java EE Development Goes Open Source Development of future releases will be hosted at the Eclipse Foundation developersrule developer oracle com Get your free trial developer oracle com Experience modern open cloud development with a free trial to Oracle Cloud platform and infrastructure services Get a Free Trial to Oracle Cloud
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