3 years ago

Category: Software

Eclipse Jetty, the webserver and servlet container project, has released Jetty 11, and with it not only became certified as fully compatible with the Jakarta EE 9 Servlet specifications but also moved into the jakarta.* namespace, which Eclipse Foundation executive direction Mike Milinkovich sees as a good sign for the ecosystem as a whole. Jetty is one of the preeminent, very often used runtimes for Java applications and the fact that they have now adopted the Jakarta namespace really helps reinforce the message that the ecosystem is moving with us, that we are moving from the Javax.* namespace to Jakarta.*,” said Milinkovich in an interview. It’s ultimately a key supporting fact that the ecosystem is following the lead that we’re taking with Jakarta, moving to the Jakarta namespace, and helping us enable hopefully a lot of new innovation, and particularly cloud native innovation, moving forward.”

In the end, the decision was made that we were going to have to come up with a new namespace. We have to take all of these specs and move them from the Java.x namespace into the Jakarta namespace,” said Milinkovich.