John Clingan is a Senior Principal Product Manager in Red Hat Middleware focusing on next-generation platforms. He is also an Eclipse MicroProfile co-founder and committer. Prior to Red Hat John spent 8 years as the GlassFish and Java EE product manager at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. John has 30 years of industry experience (he's kinda old) including software development, technical sales and consulting, and product management. John is a co-founder of and committer on Eclipse MicroProfile. He also has 10+ years of experience teaching Cal State and University of California Extension Java courses to intellectually hungry Java students.
Background There has been a recent update on the Jakarta EE rights to Java trademarks. It is worth a read in detail since there will be a future impact on the Eclipse MicroProfile specifications. To be brief, Jakarta EE specifications can use the existing Java EE-related apis defined under the…
This stackoverflow question on MicroProfile support in Quarkus pointed out the need for a one-pager cheat-sheet on Quarkus MicroProfile support. MicroProfile is a collection of specifications. SmallRye is a project that implements MicroProfile specifications. Generally speaking, there is a SmallRye GitHub repo in support of each specification. Quarkus implements MicroProfile specifications…
Today Quarkus was introduced to the open source community. Per its announcement, “Quarkus is a Kubernetes Native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and HotSpot, crafted from best-of-breed Java libraries and standards.” Quarkus is designed to provide a great experience for developing and running Java on containers, Kubernetes, and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)…
I’ll keep this post shorter than the last one. Wow! 2016 was a turbulent year for Java EE.
I was recently pointed to Gartner’s Market Guide to Application Platforms report, written by Anne Thomas and Aasish Gupta. The report takes a very negative view of Java EE to the point that I thought I was reading an obituary. To summarize their report, “Run, Run Away” from Java EE. Hey, if…
