I really hope for the sake of so many people around the world
that depend on or should depend on Java EE that you are right.
It dismays me when people that make/made tons of money out of
this stuff look to people that make no money or pittances to move
the technology forward (in fact in some cases these people
sacrifice their family, free time and day jobs for years to help
with this stuff in any way that they can). This is especially true
for technologies like Servlet, JPA and so many others that
Sun/Oracle has invested thousands of full time employee man-hours
over many years for them to get anywhere.
I can guarantee that other than a few die-hards like me in the
short run, no one in the community will contribute anything until
they see a serious commitment from vendors to move this work
forward that at least somewhat matches what Oracle will quite
obviously not do any more. Enough said.
On 10/16/17 5:48 PM, Mike Milinkovich
wrote:
Reza,
Mark Little said "...the community has to also step forward and
help make this a success...".
You said "...vendors will still need to do a lion's share of the
work much...".
These are not mutually exclusive statements. Both represent
matters of degree. I have personally been pretty amazed at the
energy shown on this list over the past week.
On 2017-10-16 9:43 AM, reza_rahman wrote:
While I am sure the community can pick some things up just
like they did for Java EE 8, the reality is probably that most
folks are just like me - we will try to do what we can when
the demands of the day job (the stuff that actually helps pay
the bills) and family (the stuff that actually really matters
at the end of the day) is done. Realistically, this probably
means about 15-20 hours a week on good weeks.
What this means is that if this effort is to be in any way
competitive, vendors will still need to do a lion's share of
the work much like is the case for Spring, the Lightbend
stack, etc. The secret sauce for Spring in particular is that
Pivotal has no hesitation investing in the Spring stack even
when they do not directly make money from it. If vendors do
not have the similar mindset here, I agree it's wise to stop
wasting any more effort, throw in the towel now and move on to
bigger and better things. While an effort driven mostly by
community can move forward for shorts bursts of time, the
reality is that it is no match for professionals getting paid
full time to do 50-60 hours of work each week.
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-------- Original message --------
Date: 10/16/17 8:06 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Re: [ee4j-community] Red Hat committment to EE4J
More specifically, is Red Hat going to
continue to move CDI and Bean Validation forward?
Yes, where forward movement makes sense.
What about JPA? I don't think anyone in the
community can realistically move that forward. I have
similar concerns for Servlet (and perhaps a more
reactive alternative to Servlet). These APIs are so
complex that you really need dedicated folks that work
for a vendor full time to move them forward.
We will remain active in other JSRs and help with new efforts
where it makes sense. But the community has to also step
forward and help make this a success because if it remains
solely in the hands of the vendors then maybe we should just
roll everything back.
-------- Original message --------
Date: 10/12/17 7:44 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Re: [ee4j-community] Red Hat
committment to EE4J
Mark,
For
the avoidance of doubt and for those who haven't
been paying
attention :) Red Hat is committed to working for
the continuing
success of Java EE and now EE4J. We intend to put
forward various
individuals who may be relevant to lead various
JSRs if no other
appropriate community members step forward as well
as the JSRs we lead
currently. When the time is right (note, when not
if) we'll also work
to ensure EE4J and Eclipse MicroProfile
collaborate in a meaningful
manner and hopefully "merge" in whatever way is
appropriate and
determined by both communities.
I'm assuming that the last "we" here
is the MicroProfile community and not RedHat,
correct?
Mark.
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