Java Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 06 from the editor to be formulated such as stafing the individual projects who gets to commit who reviews changes and who runs the projects as well as larger questions such as how will conformance with Java EE standards be validated what will be the process for determining a new release and so on As David Delabassée of Oracle points out there are additional issues to resolve as well such as branding and the possible integration of MicroProfile With regard to branding it got off to a bit of a rocky start at JavaOne when rumor had it that Java EE would be renamed EE4J Eclipse Enterprise for Java However that is actually the proposed name of the project at the Eclipse Foundation rather than of the technology itself The relationship between EE4J and Java EE is analogous to OpenJDK and Java SE the former is the development project and the latter is the resulting technology Community reaction to the move by Oracle has been uniformly supportive And theres good reason for that enthusiasm Unlike many other projects transferred to open source Java EE benefits from a very active community that continues to push forward the multiple constituent technologies For example in this issue we look at how those communities along with Oracle have significantly updated CDI Servlet and JPA But certainly we could have included other technologies too many of which are driven by active expert groups donating their time and effort to the project This strong community more than any other aspect I believe guarantees the success of this migration If all goes well as I expect it will the migration should make it possible to attract even more developers to grow and advance these technologies Andrew Binstock Editor in Chief javamag_ us@ oracle com @ platypusguy P S The events described here are under active implementation and discussion so its entirely possible that details of the transition and of the project at the Eclipse Foundation might soon difer from what has been described here Same Java Runtime Same Dev Tools Same Standards Same Architecture or Back to Your Data Center Push a Button Move Your Java Apps to the Oracle Cloud
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