After a long hanging game with two month-long postponements, the Eclipse Foundation has released Version 9 of Jakarta Enterprise Edition. The final version of the individual specifications is now available on the website of the Jakarta EE working group. It is to be expected that in the coming months the common Java application servers will aim for certification according to Jakarta EE 9.

Since 2018 Jakarta EE has been the name of the Enterprise Edition of Java and thus continues the history of Java EE. The ninth edition does not bring any substantial innovations, but for trademark reasons the APIs it contains change the Java package prefix from “javax” to “jakarta”. The conversion of existing applications therefore requires a revision of the own source code, which was last necessary with Java EE 5 with the introduction of annotations.

Jakarta EE is a collection of industry standards that enable company applications in Java to be programmed that are independent of the application server used. Future editions of Jakarta EE should bring new capabilities and increasingly turn to the cloud environment. 2017 Oracle handed over the former Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation.

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