Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation

Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by emergie on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:06PM (#15235188)

It's basically Java SE + a standarized stack of technologies, that are usually used in server applications: Servlet, EJB, CDI, JSP, JSF, JTA, JPA...

Java EE is not the only way of doing serverside java apps - most of systems i've developed used tomcat + spring-* stack, which is not a Java EE platform.

I think reading this project page may help clarify what Java EE is:

http://openejb.apache.org/apache-tomee.html

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Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by guelo on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:21AM (#15235517)

Spring + tomcat is built on J2EE, or at least it was 5 years ago when I worked on that stuff. The servlets API is part of J2EE.

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Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by StevePerkins on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:49AM (#15237340)

The whole "Spring is really JEE" retort is even more pedantic than the folks who insist on referring to "Linux" as "GNU/Linux".

These days it's more fair to say that Spring "supports optional integration" with JEE API's. You can run modern Spring web/REST apps without a Servlet container. Spring doesn't care whether your ORM implements the JPA interfaces or not. Etc, etc... it's all slowly phasing out.

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Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by pjmlp on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:00AM (#15235680)

Many of the annotation based APIs from Spring are actually JEE as well.

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