The Eclipse Foundation has a long track record of providing a level playing field for all interested parties to collaborate on technology. “The main difference is that the governance model is now inherently multi-vendor. The new Jakarta has nothing to do with the older project, save for the shared name.Īccording to a FAQ on the new Jakarta Project, one of the large benefits of this new effort under the Eclipse banner is the fact that the governance model will be much more open to participants in the vendor community and beyond. Back then, Jonathan Locke donated a package of regular expressions to the Apache Foundation, which was initially released in May of 2000 as Jakarta Regexp 1.0. Jakarta went on to include a number of other similar projects, but was eventually retired from the official list of active Apache Foundation projects in 2011. The new name originates in the Apache Foundation, where the Jakarta Project originated as a place where gaps in the open source Java ecosystem were filled. This is about resetting the community, the processes, and the technology so that the Jakarta EE platform becomes what the next generation of developers want to use to build their applications,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “What this is about is not just bringing Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. And the code base also is getting a new name: Jakarta EE. The platform’s latest features included a new API for JSON bindings, and support for server-sent events.
In September of last year, Java EE 8 arrived at the same time as it was being donated to Eclipse. Last year Oracle donated the code behind Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, as a show of good faith to the community which had been seemingly neglected for so long. Once the darling of enterprise application development, and the focal point of much of the innovation in the Java community, the framework and platform became stagnant, and emblematic of the technical debt it was designed to replace. It’s been a long, strange road for Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
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