[ee4j-community] IBM supports the move of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundat

["Kevin Sutter" <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Although I have been active in the various
email discussions and voiced my support at JavaOne this past week, I thought
it might be good to post explicit support of this move and indicate our
continued involvement in the EE4J activities.

In case you missed it, IBM announced
their support of "Open Java EE" at our Community Keynote last
week at JavaOne:
http://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/most-recent/video/5600375079001/ibm-javaone-keynote-10-5-2017

IBM has been an active participant in
many of the Java EE expert groups in the past and we plan to continue to
participate in similar "expert groups" under the Eclipse umbrella.
 We have also identified a few key technologies that we feel are instrumental
to the success of Java microservices -- jax-rs, json-b, json-p, and security.
 If the EE4J community does not produce or nominate leaders for these
technologies, then we would be happy to provide a leadership role.  Regardless,
we will continue to participate in these respective communities (and several
others).

And, of course, IBM will continue to
lead the Java Batch efforts.  Java Batch is currently developed and
maintained in a github repo under the Apache v2 license.  Since the
main goal of the EE4J effort is to initially get Java EE to an open-governance
model, the focus will be to first get the Oracle artifacts moved over to
EE4J.  Once this process is established and is moving forward, then
we will consider moving Java Batch as well.  Since all of the Java
Batch artifacts (including the TCK) are already Apache v2 licensed, the
move to Eclipse is not as urgent or immediate.  

As many of you know, we have also been
very instrumental in the MicroProfile efforts -- both from a leadership
as well as technical contribution perspectives.  We will continue
to drive the MicroProfile efforts in parallel with the EE4J efforts.  As
Ian put it in the video above, EE4J is moving in next door to MicroProfile.
 Once EE4J becomes established, I'm sure we will need to evaluate
the future direction of MicroProfile.  Do we continue with MicroProfile
as the innovative arm of EE4J?  Or, does it meld under the EE4J umbrella?
 We need to take a wait-and-see view on this direction.  And,
that's why we won't sit idle with the MicroProfile efforts.  We are
continuing to define new specifications for inclusion in future versions
of MicroProfile.

We look forward to this EE4J effort
and will continue to work with both Eclipse and Oracle (and the other partners)
during this process.

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Kevin Sutter 
STSM, MicroProfile and Java EE architect
e-mail:  sutter@xxxxxxxxxx     Twitter:  @kwsutter
phone: tl-553-3620 (office), 507-253-3620 (office)    
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwsutter