Today is a great day. Today we introduce a new Java microservices frameworks and a new member of MicroProfile family. Please welcome Project Helidon — a new Java open source microservices framework from Oracle.
Helidon is a Greek word for “swallow”, a type of bird that according to Wikipedia has “a slender, streamlined body and long pointed wings, which allow great manoeuvrability and… very efficient flight”. Perfect for darting through the clouds.
Do you know that many famous people were born at the end of April? I’ll give you some samples. April 21 is the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II; Vladimir Lenin was born on April 22, William Shakespeare on April 21, and Adolf Hitler on April 20. Maybe I shouldn’t include Hitler here, but he had a huge influence on 20th century history. Why do I mention this? Because on April 24, 2018, Jakarta EE was born. Using mathematical induction, we can predict that this newborn child will have a great influence on the Java world.
Disclaimer: This is not an official EE4J PMC opinion.
This document is a product of my discussion with Oracle Prague development team consisting of engineers actively working on EclipseLink, Yasson. JSON-P, JPA, Metro, Jersey and other projects about technical directions each EE4J project should follow to make Jakarta EE successful.
Continue readingSome people were complained that it’s difficult to find information about all Jakarta EE projects and their transfer status. I collected this information in the table below. For today it’s the most complete and accurate data. Links points to a project home page if the project is created and to a proposal if the project has not been created yet.
As part of a process of transferring Java EE 8 to the Eclipse Foundation, EclipseLink source code repository was moved from Eclipse git to eclipse-ee4j organization on GitHub. It aligns EclipseLink with other EE4J projects and makes it more open to the community.
If you are a committer don’t forget to update your local copy!
| New Location | Old Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Repository | EE4J GitHub | Eclipse git + Mirror |
| Issues Tracker | EE4J GitHub + Eclipse BugZilla | Eclipse BugZilla |
From now on GitHub repository becomes a main working repository. All pull request and code reviews must be done there. Old repository on Eclipse git is switched to read only mode and will be eventually deleted as well as it’s mirror on GitHub.
I am also recommending using GitHib issues tracker for bugs submission the same way as other EE4J projects are doing. The old issues tracker is still active though.
Other project repositories (examples, etc.) will be also moved to EE4J GitHub in the nearest future.
As part of a process of transferring Java EE 8 to the Eclipse Foundation, Yasson source code repository was moved from eclipse organization to eclipse-ee4j organization on GitHub.
Old location:
https://github.com/eclipse/yasson
New location:
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/yasson
All Yasson committers have to update local working copies.
Today is a big date. I just pushed JSON Processing sources to Eclipse EE4J GitHub repository.
See it live here: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jsonp
It’s first sources which are actually transferred from Oracle to Eclipse. First two projects (Yasson and EclipseLink) were already in Eclipse Foundation, but under different root project.
More project coming soon! The firsts make history. And the first one was JSON-P!
