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Welcome to my new series called “Understanding Jakarta EE 8”. A tutorial series that tackle various Jakarta EE 8 technologies.
Jakarta EE 8 marks the new era in the Java Ecosystem. It is essentially Java EE 8 but it is governed by the Jakarta EE Working Group, What’s important is that the Jakarta EE project is operated under an open-source process - the Jakarta EE Specification Process (JESP). My previous article explains the history of Jakarta EE 8.
I traditionally write up a retrospective on the year from the perspective of the Java Ecosystem. But this past year, there were some major announcements by Oracle on their positioning around Java support and subscription licensing, which has sent the ecosystem into a bit of a tailspin.
The information by Oracle was often misread, misinterpreted, and misunderstood with the added complication of many folks not understanding their options going forward.