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Discussion on: Java EE is dead, why still using it?

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Joshua Austin

IMHO, it's far from dead, but it's losing ground for sure.

The JavaEE specification and APIs can eliminate the need for maintaining Maven dependencies, which can be a security liability if you don't know how to avoid insecure JARs from being compiled into your web application. Imagine building a robust web app using only the standard library of your programming language of choice so you don't need external dependencies (or very few): that's the use case JavaEE is best intended for.

The Eclipse MicroProfile specification within JavaEE is an attempt at giving JavaEE a second wind as well, given the popularity of microservice architectures.

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Omar Muhtaseb

Thank you, this is the very first time that I hear about Eclipse MicroProfile.