OmniFish, the Estonia-based Jakarta EE consulting company, launched assist for Jakarta EE in September 2022 . The guidance incorporates JakartaEE 10, GlassFish 7, and Piranha Cloud and its parts like Mojarra, a compatible implementation of the Jakarta Faces specification. OmniFish not long ago also joined the Jakarta EE Operating Team as a participant member. InfoQ spoke to Arjan Tijms, David Matějček, and Ondro Mihályi about OmniFish.
InfoQ: What was the inspiration to start off this new firm?

Arjan Tijms: I have been included with Java EE and Jakarta EE due to the fact 2000. With the launch of OmniFaces in 2012 and contributions to Mojarra and JSF (Java Server Faces), I became more included with specification operate and APIs, which culminated in getting to be the job direct of several Jakarta EE specifications and Eclipse projects. We set up OmnIFish to assistance this do the job immediately and give consumers obtain to the men and women who perform on lots of Jakarta EE and Eclipse initiatives.


David Matějček: Jakarta EE is significantly more open up and content to acknowledge any enable from the neighborhood. I can now straight do the job on Eclipse GlassFish as a committer right after 15 yrs of doing the job with GlassFish and hoping to function close to the bugs I found. Now I would like to get the job done on GlassFish to strengthen it for other people that use it.


Ondro Mihályi: I strongly imagine bringing improvements to the Java marketplace with Jakarta EE and GlassFish. I was delighted that we shared a very similar vision with Arjan and David. We established OmniFish to be ready to pursue it.

InfoQ: Are there any certain Jakarta EE requirements that OmniFish will contribute?

Arjan Tijms: Certainly, as I am personally the venture guide of the Jakarta Faces and Jakarta Security technical specs, those will be the very first and foremost kinds on my listing. With Piranha Cloud, we have executed a Servlet container from scratch, so we are the natural way also interested in the Servlet spec.


David Matějček: We are presently committers on many requirements, but I would in its place do some fixes and servicing on whichever job involves that. Someone has to do that when most developers just like generating new stuff!


Ondro Mihályi: We unquestionably program to add to the new Jakarta Config specification. It has a enormous likely to become a basis for lots of Jakarta EE technical specs in the long term and make configuration in Jakarta EE simple for buyers. In addition to that, we imagine a few improvements for Jakarta Protection and Jakarta RESTful World wide web Products and services.

InfoQ: What are the prolonged-expression aims for OmniFish?

Ondro Mihályi: Very first and foremost, we aim on making our shoppers effective with the Jakarta EE technological innovation and the Jakarta EE products and solutions that we aid. We would like to grow to be a dependable and responsible companion, assisting organizations keep their computer software quick, reliable, testable, maintainable, and up-to-date. We pick the goods we acquire and support to provide trustworthy and flexible possibilities. We goal to match the wants of Jakarta EE users as they evolve and match modern traits, be it microservices, cloud deployments, or serverless solutions.


Eventually, we would like to build ourselves as a main participant in the Jakarta EE ecosystem by itself the two are furthering the platform and aiding buyers get the most out of it. We see enormous prospective in the cloud, specifically in the serverless spot. We would like to develop merchandise that are greatly utilised and common for cloud deployments whilst staying perfect also for regular deployments. Jakarta EE is a great foundation for that, as it gives a conventional API and will allow us to innovate the runtimes under the hood.

InfoQ: What’s on the horizon for OmniFish?

Ondro Mihályi: The release of Eclipse GlassFish 7 is an critical milestone in the small term. We set quite a few bugs in it over the last two decades and will keep on improving upon it, together with its parts these kinds of as Mojarra, Soteria, Jersey, and quite a few others.


Even more out is getting our new Jakarta EE runtime Piranha Cloud creation all set. Piranha Cloud shares numerous elements with GlassFish, but is itself a totally new advancement. It is entirely created up from the floor for embedded, modular and programmatic use, with small start out-up occasions suitable for cloud and serverless deployments. With GlassFish as a traditional application server, Piranha Cloud as our light-weight runtime, and the Jakarta EE APIs and shared factors binding them, we aim to give a coherent option for functioning any backend Java apps.

GlassFish 7 is component of the developing compatible goods that guidance Jakarta EE 10, together with Payara Server, WildFly, and a lot more. Much more aspects on Jakarta EE 10 launch are in this InfoQ news story.