Oracle says Java EE 8 will be equipped for cloud deployments, microservices, containers, and multitenancy, but Java advocates want to see the fine print ...

Java EE 8 will feature JAX-RS 2.1, thereby facilitating REST communications, which Lehmann says is the typical method coarse-grained microservices communicate with one another, almost by default.

According to a study by the Eclipse Foundation, the popularity of Java 21 is increasing, while Jakarta EE is gaining users over Java EE.