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Discussion on: The Javax to Jakarta mess, it's even worse than I thought

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Thomas Broyer

I addressed it in the first post, and I linked to that same blog post from the Eclipse Foundation there:

Yes, Oracle being Oracle, they transfered the technology and documentation, but not the name and trademark. Indeed, Java EE was renamed to Jakarta EE. But that's not all, they also prohibited any modification to the javax.* packages, so everything would eventually be moved new packages. The Eclipse Foundation presented it as what Eclipse and Oracle had agreed on but let's not be fooled by that PR wording: what would you expect from the company that almost ruined our whole industry with the trial against Google over Android?

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Arnaud Dagnelies

Ah, indeed, sorry. I only read that second article 🙄😅