| Re: [jakarta.ee-community] Thoughts on JakartaEE |
+1. I like what you wrote Cen. It does matches my perspective as well.
On 23 Sep 2019, at 18:47, cen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After reading a ton of mailing list material and blog posts I'd like
> to share some thoughts on JakartaEE.
>
> I use a lot of JavaEE and MP daily and contribute to one of MP
> framework implementations.
>
>
> The javax naming is very unfortunate but won't really be a big problem
> for us microservice users since we can update one service at a time.
> Other than refactoring costs I don't see anything problematic, I think
> application server users will have much more trouble.
>
> MP was the best thing that happened to JavaEE because it allowed us to
> take the stable and mature modules from JavaEE and combine them with
> modern approaches that were missing in the spec. Seeing how successful
> MP has been so far, I wouldn't merge the projects but collaboration
> between projects to make specs more interop is welcome. Duplicating
> specs for roughly the same things would be the major fail.
>
> I have mixed feelings about JakartaEE adding a ton of new features to
> attract new users. While some new features would be welcome, I see the
> core modules pretty feature complete. I am not sure people would
> switch massively to JakartaEE for any reason but I do know existing
> developers will probably stay if platform feels alive which was not
> the case for the past few years. As an existing user I am more
> concerned about the state of some important reference implementations
> with long standing bugs which are an annoyance in day-to-day work.
> Looking at bugs.eclipse.org - Eclipselink for example screams of
> abandonware although now that all projects are on github contributing
> is thankfully much easier. I already had some positive experience
> contributing to upstream RI so that's feels good.
>
>
> Best regards, cen
>
>
>
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