Oracle open sourced and released the bulk of the Java Enterprise Edition specifications and source code. But what they did not do, is release the Java trademar

Oracle open sourced and released the bulk of the Java Enterprise Edition specifications and source code. But what they did not do, is release the Java trademark. So, the whole kit had to be called something else (in this case they chose Jakarta, which has history in the Java community and lets the colloquial "JEE" still work). Part of this process what they had to rename ALL of the Java EE packages from the original "javax" root name to something else, again, in this case, "jakarta". This has been a several year process that's held up a lot of advancement in the platform as it transitioned out of Oracle and over the Eclipse foundation. At this point with moving to Java 11 and supporting Java 17 (no small feat), and having all of the packages renamed, repackaged, re-released, Jakarata EE is probably "finally free" from where it was back in "Java EE 8".