IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty profile, v8.5, is now Java EE 7 certified, the company announced this week. The latest stable release of this lightweight profile of the app server for ...

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Iconoclastically, Bien claims that most of the established J2EE and Gang of Four (GoF) patterns are no longer relevant for today's enterprise developers. He advocates for a continuous development ...

Oracle Corp. has pushed the target release date of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) to the first half of 2017. Updates of the target dates for the Java Specification Requests (JSRs) ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive ...

Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...