On 2018-01-18 5:09 AM, Ralph Soika
wrote:
A
committed community that evangelizes is the best type of
marketing there is. Thank you for your continued support and
dedication.
First of all, I would like to thank you for this open and
transparent discussion on such an important topic as the future
of Java EE and Ee4J.
We at Imixs are just a small open source project and cannot
contribute directly. Nevertheless, I think that this part of the
community has to get again the chance to contribute more (as at
the time of Sun). Even if the contribution arises only through
questions that help us to share knowledge..
I would like to make a point that I personally never really
understood :
Basically, Java EE has always been a component architecture in
which individual components can be distributed independently of
each other. Similar to eclipse plugin concept. Unfortunately,
this aspect had often disappeared. Mostly only monolithic
enterprise applications developed by the large industry were
seen as the only use case for Java EE.
We at Imixs are an open source project that develops a workflow
engine based on a standalone EJB component.
It would be great if something like a component market would be
developed similar to the Eclipse market place. This could help
to build a community from the ground up again.
Ralph,
The Eclipse Marketplace
is a general purpose facility that could be extended to meet the
requirements of the EE4J community if there is demand. In 2017 we
added an IoT marketplace for example. I think it's a little early
to start on this, but when the time comes we do have the
infrastructure.
HTH
