Yesterday the ballot closed. Cablelabs is the new ME EC member. Detailed results follow below:

• Cablelabs (Jon Courtney) with 48 votes (30%)
• Kay Glahn with 45 votes (28%)
• Marlon Luz with 36 votes (23%)
• Alticast (Do Hyung Kim) with 31 votes (19%)

Congratulations to all the candidates and welcome Cablelabs to the ME EC. 

On February 8th at midnight the ballot closed.
Cablelabs is the new ME EC member.
Detailed results follow below:

• Cablelabs (Jon Courtney) with 48 votes (30%)
• Kay Glahn with 45 votes (28%)
• Marlon Luz with 36 votes (23%)
• Alticast (Do Hyung Kim) with 31 votes (19%)

Congratulations to all the candidates and please join the JCP PMO in welcoming Cablelabs to the ME EC.

Check out the latest in the series of JCP program case studies- Agility: Definitions, Principles, and Practices for Today.   These case studies are based on JSRs recently developed through the JCP program and are a result of interviews with the JSR Specification (Spec) Lead.  In this series, the focus is on agility:  "Most people grasp the basic idea of being quick, but there is much more involved than sheer speed of development or time to market.".  The following JSRs/Spec Leads are included:

• Ronald Toegl Works Backwards with JSR 321 in Deliberate Bid for Agility
• Ed Burns Employs Agility When Offering Control to Keep Control of JSR 314 and Beyond
• Emmanuel Bernard Takes a Counter-Intuitive Stance in Developing JSR 303 with Agility

Let us know if you have candidates for other studies or topics.  I am working on an Agility, Part 2 now.  You can view all of the JCP program case studies here.

The Special Election ballot for the open Java Micro Edtion (ME) Executive Committee (EC) seat is now posted on the JCP Election site.

There are four nominees for the 1 open seat, which has a 3-year term, ending in the Fall of 2012.  We have some very qualified and well-known candidates:

• Alticast (Do Hyung Kim)
  
• CableLabs (Jon Courtney)
  
• Kay Glahn
• Marlon Luz

JCP program members can cast their vote until 8 February on the JCP Election site (links sent to eligible voters via email with voting instructions)--please vote!!  The results will be published 9 February.  

Check out this java.net poll regarding the JCP program. The question was:

What's your view of the JCP's role in guiding Java's future?

Out of 171 responses, the majority answered "It does a good job of ensuring Java's stability".  While the JCP is not perfect, I agree.  The JCP has evolved over the last eleven years to keep pace with the developer and industry needs.  I look forward the future evolution of the JCP program. 

Today Oracle announced the completion of the Sun acquisition.  It has certainly been an interesting nine months, watching from the sidelines.  Stay tuned for details. There is a live webcast happening today on this topic.

The nominations for the available Executive Committee (EC) seat on the JCP Micro Edition (ME) EC are open through the end of this week.  There is one open seat on the ME EC.  Nominations are open until  24 January.  Read more about the EC here.

JCP program members can nominate themselves here--this is your chance to get involved!

Welcome to 2010!  December 2009 was a busy month, with Final Releases for JSR 316,  Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 and its' component JSRs, along with the Final Release of JSR 271, MIDP 3, among others.  You can read about the latest JCP program news in the December newsletter.  The 2010 Calendar is now posted on jcp.org.   

Coming up next week, nominations for the EC Special Election to fill the ME EC seat vacated by Jacob Feldman will be open.  Watch for details on how to nominate yourself on jcp.org.  Now is the time to prepare your nomination if you are interested in serving on the EC; read more about the Elections here.  The JCP EC will meet Face to Face (F2F) for the first meeting of 2010 on Tuesday and Wednesday in Santa Clara, CA at the Sun Campus.  Materials and minutes will be made available following the meeting.

 More details to come early next week.  Happy New Year!

The JCP program office is excited to announce an upgrade to the recently launched jcp.org web site. After the community's web home was completely overhauled and released in June 2009, work continued behind the scenes to add to, enhance, and fix its functionality and usefulness. Members of the PMO serve as the project team to define and complete the work.

The JCP program user community has been helpful in offering feedback on the web site. Many of the new features and bug fixes were originally suggested or identified by users. Some of those implementations will be immediately obvious. For example, all of the wikis and boards now include a way for users to give their quick opinion of the content by awarding each item with a rating, by selecting a certain number of stars. In addition, all of the public discussion boards and wikis include RSS buttons to enable a user to subscribe to updates of that content. Due to security settings and requirements of browsers, this RSS feed feature works only if SSL is enabled. For example, the RSS feature does work with the Firefox browser.

Check it out and send us feedback.  If you haven't registered for jcp.org, go here--it's easy, free, and enables you to participate more fully on jcp.org.

The results are in...the 2009 JCP EC Elections have officially concluded, and final results are available on jcp.org.

Congratulations to the new and re-elected JCP EC Members! 

SE/EE EC

• Ratified seats: Doug Lea, IBM, Oracle, HP, and Fujitsu
• Open Seat Election: Tim Peierls (new member)
  

ME EC

• Ratified seats: T-Mobile (new member), Siemens, Vodafone, AT&T (new member), and SK Telecom (new member)
  
• Open Seat Election: Jacob Feldman

The new ECs take effect on Tuesday, 17 November.  For complete results see: http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections .

Tuesday is the last day to vote in the 2009 EC Elections...JCP program members please remember to vote!  The ballot closes on Tuesday at midnight pacific time, and results will be available on jcp.org Wednesday morning, 4 November.  The new EC members take effect starting on Tuesday, 17 November.

You can check out the 2009 EC participation statistics, which detail EC meeting attendance and JSR ballot voting records on the jcp.org site.

The 2009 JCP Executive Committee (EC) Elections have arrived.  The ballot is currently open until midnight (pacific time) on Monday 2 November.   The primary contact for JCP program members are eligible to vote (one vote per member, individual Members are their own primary contact).  Please take this opportunity to influence the members on the EC by participating in the election. 

The ballot (for both ratified and elected seats) includes:

Standard/Enterprise (SE/EE) EC

• Ratification Ballot candidates include: Doug Lea, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Oracle
• Open Seat Election candidates include: Liferay, Matthew McCullough, Tim Peierls, Terracotta

Micro Edition (ME) EC

• Ratification Ballot candidates include: AT&T, Siemens, SK Telecom, T-Mobile, Vodafone
• Open Seat Election candidates include: Jacob Feldman

Primary Contacts for JCP members received the election ballot instructions via email last week and again (if they haven't voted) this week--please vote!!

For more information on the JCP EC Elections process see: http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections

Next Wednesday, 28 October 2009, the PMO will host the next call for Spec Leads and other interested JCP Members on the use of the discussion boards on jcp.org, including a discussion of what the boards are, how to access the boards, and how they differ from the aliases that we used to have on jcp.org.

Topic: SL call: Discussion Boards
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 8:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 827 540 388
Meeting Password: 1Board

Information for the teleconference numbers will display once you log in to your WebEx session.

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To join the online meeting (Now from iPhones too!)
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1. Go to https://java.webex.com/java/j.php?ED=128960662&UID=0&PW=NYmMxZjE0MTIx&RT=MiM0
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the meeting password: 1Board
4. Click "Join Now". 

Although the Expert Group in the JCP program is always the Spec Lead's primary source of input, JSRs that are developed in a transparent fashion also draw on the knowledge and experience of Observers, the Community, and the Public. Recently three new case studies of Spec Leads who are effectively gathering input from their Expert Groups and beyond.  Check out these latest Transparency Case Studies on the topic of Development and let us know if you have suggestions for other JSRs being led in a transparent and open development style.  Our next series of case studies will focus on the topic of Agility--please share any suggestions in that arena as well.

• JSR 249: Kay Glahn (Vodafone) and Erkki Rysa (Nokia) Address the Java Ecosystem
• JSR 286: Stefan Hepper (IBM) Harnesses Diverse Views to Suit a Diverse Community
• JSR 289: Mihir Kulkarni (Oracle) and Yannis Cosmadopoulos (Oracle) Taps the Community of Developers at Large

As we mentioned earlier this month, the 2009 JCP EC Elections are here. The nominations for the open seats on the Standard/Enterprise Edition (SE/EE) and Micro Edition (ME) EC close today at midnight Pacific. Nominate yourself today!

JCP program members are eligible to nominate themselves and vote on the ballot.  The ballot (for both ratified and elected seats) will open for voting on 20 October, as follows:

SE/EE EC

• Ratification Ballot will include: Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Doug Lea, Oracle
• Nominations open now for 1 elected seat--closes 14 October

ME EC

• Ratification Ballot will include: AT&T, Siemens, SK Telecom, T-Mobile, Vodafone
• Nominations open now for 1 elected seat--closes 14 October

For more information on the JCP EC Elections process see: http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections