Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 10:01 by Ivar Grimstad

Basics

This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the community. Please login and add your feedback in the comments section.

Project

Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE

Parent Project

Eclipse EE4J

Proposal State

Created

Background

We want to make it easy for developers to start new Jakarta EE projects. The Spring Initializr (https://start.spring.io/) and MicroProfile Starter (https://start.microprofile.io/) have proven to be great success stories. We want to create a similar starter for Jakarta EE (https://start.jakarta.ee/) that goes a little bit further and shows developers how to get up-and-running on cloud-native Enterprise Java technology (Jakarta EE and MicroProfile), providing skeleton projects with optional sample code and comment-like documentation. The goal is to have a single starting point and a low bar of entry for enterprise developers.

Scope

Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE provides functionality for generating skeleton Jakarta EE projects with optional samples and comment-like documentation backed by various vendor implementations.

Description

The Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE is a source code generator for Jakarta EE projects. That means that it is a natural fit under the EE4J umbrella.

Licenses

Eclipse Distribution License 1.0 (BSD-3-Clause)

Eclipse Public License 2.0

Legal Issues

The Jakarta EE working group owns the Jakarta name. It should be cleared with the working group that it is ok to use this name.

Why Here?

This project will be essential for the adoption of Jakarta EE.

Future Work

We will follow the Jakarta EE releases and release new versions of the starter as needed.

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