Did you find anything in the Java world disappointing last year?
The agreements between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation regarding Java EE. The fact that Jakarta EE is not allowed to use the javax namespace and therefore has to introduce breaking changes in the next version is a big setback. On the other hand it is impressive to see how the community deals with these facts and agrees on a common approach.
Tim Zöller – Team Leader Java, ilum:e informatik AG
I can only think of Oracle’s decision to adapt the license for Oracle Java SE.
Thomas Darimont – Founder of Java User Group Saarland and Fellow at codecentric AG
Very clearly: Jakarta EE / JPA. I had high hopes for Jakarta EE, especially because the Spring Data team is one of the few who actually use JPA to connect different implementations. Of course, every now and then you can find a bug in an implementation, or just gaps in the specification. I dreamed of a world where I could create an issue with two pull requests. According to the motto: There are following interpretations of the specification, decide for one of the two variants by merging one of the two PRs, which then determines the behaviour and tests it in the TCK. The TCKs are still in a state that the execution is disproportionately complex.
Jens Schauder – Spring Data team, Pivotal
I feel there is a bit too much attention for Java(FX) distributions, and not enough for Java(FX) commits. All Java projects ultimately depend on the quality of OpenJDK. All JavaFX projects depend on the quality of OpenJFX. It is extremely important there is enough funding for OpenJDK/OpenJFX.
Johan Vos – Java Champion, co-founder Gluon and LodgON
I wouldn’t say disappointing, but, in spite of having many Java releases over the past years, I noticed that the majority of projects are still using Java 8. Therefore, I’d love to see more and more projects migrating to, at least, Java 11, so they can take advantage of the new Java API enhancements as well as the new JVM GCs (Garbage Collectors), such as G1 or ZGC.
Vlad Mihalcea – Java Champion and author of High-Performance Java Persistence
Nothing.
Lukas Eder – Java Champion and Founder and CEO at Data Geekery
Not really. There are always the naysayers who say Java is dying or who are ultra critical of languages/organisations/approaches, this doesn’t change, maybe this is the biggest disappointment
Trisha Gee – Java Champion and Developer Advocate, JetBrains
Actually, I’m happy about how things are going. 🙂
Oleh Dokuka – Java Champion and Principal Engineer / Dev Rel, Netifi
Not really. I suppose if pushed, I would still like to see the annual Oracle developer event branded as JavaOne but I understand that they wanted to change its focus to give it broader appeal.
Simon Ritter – Java Champion and Deputy CTO, Azul Systems
The constant comparisons of frameworks in a vacuum. Technology is there to solve technical problems. Therefore, a comparison of different things only makes sense in the context of a concrete problem. Framework X starts faster than Y, with only one controller with static return value implemented in both, doesn’t help me much. I understand that today every technology has to “advertise” for itself to stand out from the “competition”, but I would like to see comparisons that are more oriented towards really concrete problems.
Michael Vitz – Senior Consultant, innoQ Deutschland GmbH
Here I really had to think a bit longer, but then I found something: Even though the UI Toolkit is being actively developed further starting with JavaFX 11 and even LTS versions are offered, the situation looks completely different with JavaFX 8. Although some companies offer JavaFX as part of their Java 8 LTS versions, the quality of bug fixes is often not that good. It is also a pity that no one has contributed fixes to the OpenJDK repository. All companies seem to work here on a private fork. So it is not possible for AdoptOpenJDK to offer JavaFX for Java 8, because the open source version is no longer maintained.
Hendrik Ebbers – Java Champion and Java developer, Karakun AG
Even though all vendors and the technical committees participated, it took some time before the eclipse Foundation was able to launch Jakarta EE and start working on its further development. But I could not see any hope destroyed in the Java universe. On the contrary, my appreciation goes to those who are involved in the redesign of Jakarta EE.
Wolfgang Weigend – Systems Engineer Java Technology and Architecture, Oracle
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