Oracle reinforces bad-guy reputation with Java EE turmoil

Oracle stands accused of failing the Java community, pulling funding and developer resources from the Enterprise Edition of its Java language – a core component of many internet-based systems, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems six years ago. Members of the Oracle developer community have said that work on Java has slowed in the past months, and for the Enterprise Edition (EE), work has come to a standstill. Talk of forking Java EE has been made, which would see developers essentially copy the code and continue their own development on this forked version, while Oracle presumably lets its own version waste. The company has been silent on the matter, and Gier Magnusson, a member of the Java Community…