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OSGi and JSR 277 Debate Continues to Grow
The debate over JSR 277 (Java Module System) and OSGi (JSR 291) is picking up steam again, with the JSR 316 (Java EE 6) submission restarting the previous debate about the overlap between OSGi and JSR 277. InfoQ has collected and summarized several viewpoints and arguments around this debate.
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Apache JCK Request Hits 90 Days without Resolution
More than three months have passed since Geir Magnusson Jr., VP of Apache Harmony, published an open letter to Sun Microsystems demanding that they should remove "unacceptable" restrictions in the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) license. At present 90 days have passed with no resolution.
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Patrick Curran replaces Onno Kluyt as JCP Chair
Onno Kluyt has announced that he will be stepping down as the Chair of the Java Community Process. He has held this role since July 2004 and managed the JCP program in several previous roles. Replacing him as Chair will be Patrick Curran, a fifteen-year veteran of Sun, and most recently the lead of Sun's Conformance Engineering team.
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Gavin King's Second Wishlist for Java EE 6: JSF and EL Enhancements
Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the second and third parts to his wishlist for Java EE 6. In these installments he focuses on enhancements for JSF and Unified EL.
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OpenJDK Project Releases Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity (JSR 294) EA Snapshot
The OpenJDK project has released early an access snapshot of the Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity Support (JSR 294). JSR 277 addresses modularity from a deployment unit perspective. JSR 294 addresses modularity from a development perspective, introducing a new language construct, called superpackages, for information hiding.
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Profiles & Extensibility Major Refactorings in Proposed Java EE 6
The Java EE 6 (JSR 316) proposal was published today. Two major themes for release are extensibility and profiles. Interface 21 CEO Rod Johnson has written a lengthy commentary on the proposal going so far as to declare his support for the JSR.
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Sun Submits Servlet 3.0 Specification to JCP
Sun has submitted the Servlet 3.0 specification to the Java Community Process (JCP) as Java Specification Request (JSR) 315. High level goals include web framework pluggability, EoD (ease of development) features, async and Comet support, security, alignment with other specifications, and various other improvements.
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The Future of SCA
In a panel on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) at JavaOne, one of the controversive topics was the SCA client programming model. Moderator David Chappell and Gregor Hohpe share their impressions.
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Java Goes Real Time
Yesterday at Java One Sun finally announced the first implementation of JSR-1, the Real-time Specification for Java, since it was finalized in July of 2006.
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Consensus Reached on Closure Proposals
Neal Gafter has announced a consensus proposal for closures in Java. All but one of the authors of the three biggest closure proposals (BGGA, FCM, CICE) has signed on as supporting the JSR.
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NIO.2 (JSR 203) Early Draft Review Available
The JSR 203 Expert Group has submitted the Early Draft Review, with comments due by May 27th. JSR 203, also called NIO.2, is billed as the next step forward from the NIO capabilities added in Java 1.4.
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Java Closure Proposals Compared, JCA Position Paper Announced
Howard Lovatt, the author of the C3S proposal for closures in Java, has written a detailed comparison of the four best known proposals (C3S, FCM, CICE, and BGGA). At the same time the authors of the FCM proposal have released a new position paper building on FCM for control abstraction. Ricky Clarkson thinks that CICE is insufficient and wonders if internal politics at Google are affecting it.
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Apache Harmony Questions Sun Regarding JCK License Terms
Yesterday, Geir Magnusson Jr., VP of Apache Harmony, wrote an open letter to Sun Microsystems expressing dissatisfaction with IP rights restrictions in the Java Compatibility Kit license and frustration over the lack of traction discussing the matter with Sun.
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What Should be In JEE 6? Gavin King's Wish List
Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the first of a series of posts containing his wish-list of features for JEE 6. Among his suggestions are increased concurrency options, simplified JMS/JavaMail, and optional business interfaces for EJB's.
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Update on Java Modules
Glyn Normington has written an overview of Java modularity covering JSR 277, JSR 291 and JSR 294. He describes how each is different and adds value, and later responds to the question of why we need modularity support in the JVM, as opposed to custom classloaders (like OSGi).