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Java Finally Goes All in on Open Source With the Jakarta EE 8 Release

posted by janrinok on Monday September 16 2019, @03:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-late-than-never dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3997

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral version of Java Enterprise Edition.

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was... troublesome. Just ask Google about Android and Java. But for Java in the enterprise things have changed.

On September 10, The Eclipse Foundation announced the full open-source release of the Jakarta EE 8 Full Platform and Web Profile specifications and related Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs).

This comes after Oracle let go of most of Java Enterprise Edition's (JEE) intellectual property. Oracle retains Java's trademarks though -- thus Java EE naming convention has been changed to Jakarta EE. But for practical programming and production purposes Jakarta EE 8 is the next generation of enterprise Java.

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/java-finally-goes-all-in-on-open-source-with-the-release-of-jakarta-ee-8/

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Monday September 16 2019, @03:27PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday September 16 2019, @03:27PM (#894639)

    If Oracle actually manages to win that case in the end,* it's going to be the stupidest judicial tech decision ever.

    But hey, as long as they don't mind watching the world burn, why would Oracle care about making interfaces copyrightable generally destroying compatibility in the entire software development industry? It's all about the money.

    *We actually managed to get a judge who had the vaguest idea what he was talking about, so of course they appealed or sent back or whatever legalese'd the decision so they could have another go. Fuck Oracle.

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