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.

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

The annual JavaOne conference kicked off on Sunday with a keynote confirmation of the widely expected delay of the release of Java EE 8.

With the move to Java 9 and the release of Java EE 8, Oracle execs like Michael Lehmann have more than one Java platform update to brag about.

Enterprise Java has completed its move from Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation in the form of Jakarta EE 8, the new version of the Java Enterprise Edition specification now under the auspices of Eclipse ...

Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 8 is not due until 2017, but given the multitude of proposals Oracle is considering for inclusion, the company will need all that time to sort out the revision. For ...

In addition, developers should be able to use JCache alongside Java EE 7 “as a drop-in API provided the spec is finalized far ahead of Java EE 8,” it stated.