What about the future of Java (EE) (@ Oracle)?

March 13, 2016

Tags: #java #javaee #oracle

I don’t rate anything, I’m just throwing a few things together:

• There’s no more commercial support of Glassfish by Oracle (ok, that’s no breaking news).
• There was this rumor of lost interest last year.
• Right before JavaOne 2015 Oracle dismissed a bunch of its Java evangelists.
• At JavaOne 2015 Oracle emphasized its engagement into Cloud strategy, no engagement in Java has been shown.
• Oracle’s invest in JavaFX decreases (no more acitve development?).
• Rumors saying, that staff of Java EE departements are working now solely for WebLogic.
• Progress of Java EE 8 lacks, some projects seem to be on halt (see current copytext at this ZEEF page).
• Now one of the lead Java EE evangelists, Reza Rahman, has left Oracle.
• Oracle is still quiet, saying nothing to all these incidents.

Community is alive and brings innovation the the ecosystem.
But is that enough?

Adam Bien has recently started a Slack channel with experts from the community to discuss how to keep Java development on track and push it even further.

Comments, anyone?

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