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Oracle's stewardship of Java is under fire -- again.

This time, the company's development of Java EE (Enterprise Edition) has become a sore spot for devotees of the platform, including Java creator James Gosling and a former Java evangelist who left Oracle in March.

Called Java EE Guardians, the group launched a petition about the matter on change.org on Thursday, said Reza Rahman, former EE evangelist at Oracle and a leader of Java Guardians. Gosling's name sits at the top of the membership page. The petition asks where Oracle stands on the planned Java EE 8 release, requests that the company maintain its commitment to the release, and claims that if Oracle is unwilling to do the work on Java EE, it should cede control to others, such as IBM or Red Hat.

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