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Azul Systems and Gil Tene, CTO and Co-Founder, Named "JCP Member of the Year" at JavaOne
Azul Systems and Gil Tene have been named Java Community Process (JCP) Member of the Year at the JavaOne 2013 conference, held last week in San Francisco. The award recognizes the corporate or individual member who has made the most positive impact on the Java community in the past year.
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Surprising Conclusions from London Java Community JCP Survey
The London Java Community, London's most famous Java meetup, published the results of their survey about the Java Community Process that expose some surprising trends. The LJC, represented by member Ben Evans, currently holds one of the 24 seats on the JCP Executive Committee, and the LJC has been very active in promoting their "Adopt A JSR" initiative promoting community support for the JCP.
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Java EE 7, Spring Standardize Batch
This month’s release of the Java EE 7 platform includes a specification for a batch processing programming model that is heavily derived from Pivotal’s Spring Batch project.
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Adopt-a-JSR Program Online Meetup Today
Adopt a JSR Program is an initiative to encourage Java User Group (JUG) members to get involved in the Java Community Process (JCP) by adopting a Java Specification Request (JSR). The team behind the Adopt-a-JSR program is hosting an online meetup on January 18. This is your opportunity to provide feedback and contribute to JCP process.
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Adopt a JSR Program Receives Increased Oracle Backing
Oracle throws weight behind London JUG Adopt a JSR Program
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JCP Reform Continues as London Java Community and CloudBees Win Seats on Executive Committee
The results are in for the JCP 2012 elections, with the London Java Community re-elected and PaaS provider CloudBees being elected for the first time in the open vote. Following the vote, the SE/EE and ME Executive Committees will be merged into a single Executive Committee, which will start to focus on the thorny matter of IP issues.
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Project Lambda Mailing Lists to be Made Public
Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle and specification lead for the Lambda expressions project, has announced that mailing lists for JSR 335 will be made publicly available.
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Inside the Java Community Process
The first in a new regular feature where we report on the results of the monthly meetings of the Java Community Process.
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Community-Driven Research: What Are Your Priorities for Java and the JVM?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a second question about "What Are Your Priorities for Java and the JVM?". This is part of our new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Azul Systems and Twitter Elected to the JCP Executive Committee, VMware No Longer Represented
Twitter and Azul Systems have been elected to serve on the JCP Executive Committee for Java SE/EE, on voting percentages of 32% and 19% respectively. Both firms have also joined the OpenJDK project. VMware is no longer represented.
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JCP.next Public Review
Oracle have announced a public review for JCP.next, which aims to increase transparency by forcing discussions to happen in the open and use publicly viewable issue trackers. However, it does not address the key issues with the JSPA which led to complaints about the JCP earlier this year.
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Oracle's Java EE 7 Plans Include Adding Cloud and HTML5 Support to the Platform
Oracle filed the umbrella JSR for Java EE 7 last week, and the specification has now passed the initial review ballot stage. The overarching themes are emerging web technologies, cloud computing, and continued ease of use improvements including an overhaul to the JMS API. Elsewhere, JPA is scheduled to receive attention, and Oracle is talking about plans to revive the long dormant JCACHE JSR.
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JCP Election Results for the New Executive Committee Members Announced: Hologic not Ratified
The results have been announced from the unusually controversial JCP Executive Committee election, with Hologic failing to be ratified. The JCP Project Management Office will now need to choose a new candidate to replace concurrency expert Doug Lea.
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Can Oracle Turn Java Around?
A lot has happened in the last week or two in the Java space. Oracle has remained silent throughout, but their silence is deafening. They need to clarify what is happening with the JCP, and comment on OSX's removal of Java. Oracle can still turn this around, but the silence is damning. They may have bought the rights to Java, but it hasn't bought into the Java community.
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JSRs: What Lies Beneath
Following on from the confirmation of Plan B, with the delay to a number of JSRs and eviction of both the Lambda project as well as collection literals from Project Coin, it's interesting to take a step back and see how a change makes it into the Java environment. It's not as simple as you think.