There is a lot of chatter on the internet about Java EE being dead. As someone who spent a lot of time implementing some of the core specs like CDI and also helping customers adopt JavaEE I was interested in determining if this is true.
Unfortunately the anecdotal evidence all points to JavaEE going the way of the DODO slowly. I am here to ring the bell. Please write all your future apps with Spring, LightBend etc., or even no framework.
This is the evidence now points towards JavaEE being dead:
- Most of the prominent Java EE evangelists - Folks who in some cases are friends and I admire deeply have left their respective Java EE shepherd companies. Reza Rahman from Oracle, Kenny Bastani from Oracle and Arun Gupta from Redhat to name just a few ...