Migrating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and Jakarta EE is a process not an event. In the past couple of weeks however, several very important milestones have occurred that deserve to be recognized.
- 100% of Glassfish and related Java EE reference implementation components from Oracle have now been contributed, and published to GitHub repositories of the EE4J organization. For those of us at the Eclipse Foundation, part of the reason why this is so huge is that to a large degree, we’ve completed our part. The repos (99) have been provisioned, the committers (162) have been given access, and the initial intellectual property reviews (404) have been done. From this point on, progress on the projects is now largely under the control of the projects themselves.
- Builds for the EE4J projects are now running on Eclipse Foundation infrastructure based on our Jenkins-based Common Build Infrastructure.
- The Java EE TCKs have been contributed and are now available in open source. The importance of this cannot be understated, as my colleague Tanja Obradović points out in her blog.
- The Eclipse Foundation has signed the Oracle Java EE TCK agreement, which is going to allow us to ship Eclipse Glassfish certified as Java EE 8 compatible. This has also required us to create a testing infrastructure at the Eclipse Foundation, and allowed the EE4J projects to begin testing against the Java EE 8 TCKs.
- IBM, Oracle, Payara, Red Hat, and Tomitribe have all committed to three years of funding for Jakarta EE ranging from $25K to $300K per year. This funding will allow us to create a dedicated team and fund marketing activities for the Jakarta EE Working Group.
This migration has been an enormous effort, and we certainly have a ways to go yet. But it’s always fun to celebrate some victories along the way.
If you are interested in learning more about Jakarta EE and the future of cloud native Java, please join us at EclipseCon Europe in Germany in October. There is a wealth of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile content. In particular, I hope to see you at the talk that I am doing with Wayne Beaton about the new specification process. Oh, and there’s also this other conference happening in San Francisco at the same time….
