I can imagine his job being hard, still officially having to evangelise Java EE, while simultaneously knowing all his work is for nothing.
The problem is that it has been brewing for some time that Oracle is severely neglecting Java (EE). See
* http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987529/java/insider-oracle... * https://jaxenter.com/oracle-and-javas-planned-obsolescence-1...
A little while earlier the Java SE evangelists had been let go:
* http://fortune.com/2015/09/07/oracle-cuts-java-execs * http://www.infoworld.com/article/2980686/java/sources-oracle...
But, the infoworld articles mentioned unnamed former Oracle employees. And people brushed them off as being FUD spread by Pivotal (the Spring company, Java EE's major competitor).
But now we have for the first time I belief an actual name of an actual Oracle employee, and also not just any employee. He may not be as direct about it as we all wish, but IMHO it gives much credibility to the previous reports.
If you're interested in the topic, look at the various Java EE mailing lists, and look in the repositories for the implementation code. You'll see there's plenty of evidence of Oracle suddenly doing very little for Java EE:
* https://github.com/spericas/ozark/graphs/contributors * https://github.com/javaserverfaces/mojarra/graphs/contributo... * https://twitter.com/jms_spec/status/689762921988132864 * https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ec-public/materia...
And then look at the GlassFish 5 (Java EE 8 RI) builds, an automated zombie process with not a single Java EE 8 commit yet, and frankly almost none commits at all (see changes file for every build):
* http://download.oracle.com/glassfish/5.0/nightly/index.html
The story is the same for no matter what Java EE list or repo you look at, with the exception of CDI which is lead by Red Hat.