Too Long; Didn't Read
The evolution of Java to become a <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/opening-up-ee-update" target="_blank">vendor neutral platform</a>, <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ec-public/materials/2017-08-15/JCP-EC-Minutes-August-2017.html" target="_blank">move to a six month release cadence</a> and the platform advancements in last releases are more than welcome. As a community, we witness an interesting transformation of the Java platform — from a pretty steady platform that used to release new features every 2 years (i.e. see Java 7 & Java 8 release dates) into a platform that is moving fast and have to compete with the new players in town that evolve rapidly. From my perspective, its really interesting to read the debate and see how enterprises will adopt these rapid innovations after a really long time that they got used to the tradeoff of having stability in favour of innovation and unpredictable changes.