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by cesarb 279 days ago
> The move from javax to jakarta was not really connected to the changes in the language.

It sort of was; it was caused by Java no longer coming with the J2EE libraries. Before that, J2EE could be considered part of Java; now that it's a separate project, they were forced to rename the packages.

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The JDK didn't come with these packages anymore. They were never part of core Java.