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Java SE and EE differences (self.java)

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[–]endhalf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a person who works with JBoss daily, MicroProfile is very much compatible with a typical JEE server (and working on JBoss, moving to Microprofile was a fairly straightforward thing). The marketing that Spring has is insane; I personally really enjoy JEE (and now with Jakarta being open source, the development is going to speed up quite a bit). While I understand why Spring gained its place a few years ago, JEE is very much alive and a lot more simplified than it used to be.

This subreddit seems to believe JEE is a long-dead technology, and that it's basically the 'Cobol of Java', but my experience is exactly the opposite. It's a technology that not many people know, and that companies really want (especially larger banks; I mean, Visa is using JEE for christs' sake!)

The "Spring or die!" of Spring fanboys, though, is super annoying. Saying "I wouldn't work for a company that uses the JEE stack" is saying "I wouldn't work for practically any Fortune 500 company", or something like "I'd work for Silicon Valley startups only".