It's been an Oracle product for 8 years, I wonder why you chose this particular release to think about searching for alternatives. Maybe you just wanted to pay tribute to John Dunsworth.
Oracle just killed Solaris and put JavaEE out to the Eclipse Foundation's hospice. They have been accelerating the purge of Sun Microsystems tech in recent months.
JavaEE and Java are two completely different things. I don't know if too many people are shedding actual tears over JavaEE, but divesting from its management does indicate that Oracle plans to commit fewer resources to improving the standard and the reference implementations.
