Could Java EE, the enterprise edition of the popular software platform, be headed for a fork? Java EE advocates, still frustrated with Oracle’s perceived Java disinterest, are ready to move forward with their own improvements.
Java EE 8, which will sport HTTP 2.0 and HTML5 capabilities, is supposed to be ready by mid-2017. But some Java partisans have their doubts about this time frame, so they’ve formed two groups to enhance Java EE on their own, outside of the jurisdiction of Oracle and the formal JCP (Java Community Process).
