Java EE renamed to Jakarta EE

Even if Oracle handed over the Java EE to the Eclipse foundation, They are refused to give their trademark because of that reason Eclipse Foundation quest to chose brand name. Finally, They chose two names through some stages. They were “Jakarta EE” and “Enterprise Profile”. To choose a best name from these two they started a poll and it is opened until Friday 23rd February 2018.

According to Mike Milinkovich’s(executive director of the Eclipse Foundation) blog post says 7,000 people voted in the community poll, Over 64% votes for

“Jakarta EE”

and for

“Enterprise Profile”

community votes ended up with 35.6%. This “Jakarta” name came from the Apache Software Foundation. They have used this to Maven, Struts, tomcat and for so many Java open source tools. And of course Apache Software Foundation agreed to give their name to Eclipse Foundation.

With this spin off, Oracle also given below project sources. Table from the Eclipse Foundation.

Old Name New Name

• Java EE Jakarta EE
• Glassfish Eclipse Glassfish
• Java Community Process (JCP) Eclipse EE.next Working Group (EE.next)
• Oracle development management Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J), Project Management Committee (PMC)

Furthermore, This decision not taken by only from Oracle, It was among IBM and Red Hat with Oracle. Oracle decided to spin off Java EE open source foundation to take on the role because it needs to grow up in these days.

I think Oracle moved this not only because they are doing their best to take Java SE to next level but also Eclipse foundation provided so may Java EE tools and Eclipse Foundation is the home for Java EE(according to developers). David Delabassee, said in August 2017 “We believe that moving Java EE technologies including reference implementations and test compatibility kit to an open source foundation may be the right next step, in order to adopt more agile processes, implement more flexible licensing, and change the governance process.”

Now developers looking forward to see Eclipse Foundation, what will do to grow Jakarta EE.