Remember when Oracle bought Sun? The one thing that seemed to make sense about this deal was Oracle's acquisition of Java. Almost 10 years later, Oracle gave up on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), aka ...

Overview: Frameworks like Spring Boot remain dominant in backend and microservices development thanks to mature ecosystems ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Jakarta Enterprise Edition 9.1 allows developers to use Java SE 11 features in Jakarta EE applications and migrate Jakarta EE apps to Java SE 11 without changes. The Eclipse Foundation’s Jakarta EE ...

In a survey by the Eclipse Foundation, more developers are using Jakarta EE than Spring and Java 21 is quickly establishing itself in the enterprise sector. The Eclipse Foundation has published the ...

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 ...

Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...

IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty profile, v8.5, is now Java EE 7 certified, the company announced this week. The latest stable release of this lightweight profile of the app server for ...

The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...