The open-source project founded by IBM becomes an independent organization and announces a new board, including IBM, Intel, SAP, Ericcson and smaller companies.

Enterprise Java has completed its move from Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation in the form of Jakarta EE 8, the new version of the Java Enterprise Edition specification now under the auspices of Eclipse ...

But an independent Eclipse group faces significant challenges in continuing to expand its influence in the Java tools industry, said John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester Research.