Java EE 8 was also the final Java enterprise release from Oracle: The Eclipse Foundation has taken charge of stewarding the technology, which it has rebranded to Jakarta EE. Java EE 8 introduced or updated many Java technology specifications, including JSON-B (JavaScript Object Notation Binding), Java EE Security, Servlet 4.0, and JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.3 for building server-side user interfaces. In those intervening years the Java language, APIs, JVM ecosystem, and some frameworks have evolved significantly. This IDE review was first published in September 2016, and has been updated in December 2018. I also checked out several open source Java projects so that I could test all of the IDEs on the same projects. For this roundup, I did fresh installations of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2018.3, Eclipse IDE 2018‑09 for Java EE Developers, and Apache NetBeans (incubating) IDE 9 on a Mac.
