It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

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

Java EE upgrades to come faster Java EE 8 will be followed next year by Java EE 9, as part of a two-phase effort to retool the platform for modern-day cloud and microservices deployments.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral version of Java Enterprise Edition.

What is the best way to start creating cloud-native Java applications, especially when traditional Java EE development is so heavily ingrained?

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Another capability that had been slated for Java EE 7, the JCache standard caching API, has been deleted from the Java EE 7 feature list. It is expected to be a candidate for Java EE 8, planned ...