Specifications for the Jakarta EE 9 Platform and Web Profile are being released on December 8, providing a new namespace for the Java enterprise edition after the Eclipse Foundation was unable to wrest the previous package namespace from Oracle.
Published by Eclipse’s Jakarta EE Working Group, Jakarta EE 9 leverages the package namespace, jakarta.*, instead of the previously used javax.* namespace, which is still used in the standard edition of Java and still under Oracle’s jurisdiction. Thus, the namespace had to be changed.
