[Roboprog]

Pulling out of Java EE probably makes sense for them from a financial perspective. It's a huge codebase with god-awful complexity and a zillion legacy features. And, if it's not making any money, what do you tell your shareholders when they see the "maintain JEE" section of the quarterly budgets???

(the very size of this codebase might make it difficult for anybody to maintain)

That said, I suppose we shouldn't be shocked if Oracle gathers usage data, finds the 5% of the platform actually in common use, and creates a new (proprietary) server platform mostly compatible with the features that matter, for which you will pay dearly to have supported/patched.

Obviously, this move isn't good for anybody but Oracle, but they are not a charity, and can anyone say that JEE is not a bloated pile of mostly abandoned missteps with a few random nuggets of goodness?

I guess there's always "Sparkjava" (Sinatra/Express style) web platform for Java 8 :-) http://sparkjava.com/