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Today the Jakarta EE Ambassadors are announcing the start of the Jakarta EE Community Acceptance (JCAT) Testing initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to test Jakarta EE 9/9.1 implementations testing using your code and/or applications. Although Jakarta EE is extensively tested by the TCK, container specific tests, and QA, the purpose of JCAT isContinue reading “Jakarta Community Acceptance Testing (JCAT)”

The Jakarta EE Ambassadors are encouraged by the continued progress and relevance of both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. We believe a clear, collaborative, and complementary relationship between Jakarta EE and MicroProfile is very important for the Java ecosystem.  Unfortunately the relationship has been unclear to many in the Java community, sometimes appearing to be disconnected,Continue reading “Jakarta EE Ambassadors Joint Position on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Alignment”

The Cloud Native for Java (CN4J) Alliance has recently been formed to promote better alignment between Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. One of the key issues to sort out is how Jakarta EE can consume MicroProfile specifications (such as MicroProfile Configuration). There are several alternatives as to how this could be done. The following is aContinue reading “Your Input Needed to Determine Path for Jakarta EE/MicroProfile Alignment”

A couple of months ago, the Java EE Guardians group began working with the Eclipse Foundation to go through the effort of changing to a new and more relevant title as the Jakarta EE Ambassadors. We are excited to announce that after much coordination, time, effort, and assistance from the Eclipse Foundation, the rebranding isContinue reading “Jakarta EE Ambassadors Rebranding Complete”

The Java EE Guardians have noted with great excitement the final agreement between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation to move forward Jakarta EE. Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich covers the agreement and its objective implications well. He also does a good job outlining current Jakarta EE working group consensus and a high-level view ofContinue reading “Moving Forward with Oracle and Eclipse Foundation Agreement on Jakarta EE”

This post was originally written by Martin Farrell. I wrote a post a few weeks ago titled Which IDEs and Servers support Java EE 8 and Java 9 which looked at the current state of play between Java 9 and Java EE 8. As you would expect things have moved quickly and we now haveContinue reading “Java 9 on Java EE 8 Using Eclipse and Open Liberty”