Here's a little feedback to your last week's discussion on Java EE. I've been a Java Enterprise developer since the early years of Java EE and my opinion is if Java EE goes away... absolutely nothing will change. Sure, it may affect projects written by former Cobol developers who didn't know better, but anyone doing real Java Enterprise work has moved to Spring / JPA / Hibernate solution about 10 years ago.

Java EE started off as a solution for only the largest 1% of companies with their convoluted Enterprise and Stateful/Stateless Beans. Since EE was so terrible to work with projects like Hibernate / Spring came to be. Ever since then Java EE has been ripping off these projects to create their own bastardized specifications. The only difference is their specs is way worse than just using the original.

I'm betting on Oracle's next big EE announcement is that they ripped of Spring Boot.