Java EE is an evolving spec and includes basic things like JSON processing, REST, JMS, JPA, even the servlet API itself - these things are very popular in green

Java EE is an evolving spec and includes basic things like JSON processing, REST, JMS, JPA, even the servlet API itself - these things are very popular in greenfield projects. If you're writing a web app, you're using Java EE unless you're writing your own server.