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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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

The summer edition of the JCP Program newsletter. is available now on jcp.org.  It was a busy summer--this edition covered recent news/events, the 2009 Executive Committee (EC) Elections, the new jcp.org web site,  JCP version 2.7, Java Specification Requests (JSR) updates and a membership update.

The 2009 JCP Executive Committee (EC) Elections are here!   This year's elections run October 1 - November 3. 

Due to the changes introduced with the JCP version 2.7 Maintenance Release in June 2009, the time line for the annual JCP EC Elections looks a bit different this year.  The nomination phase is first--happening now at our Election web site.  Nominations for the 2 open EC seats--one on the Standard/Enterprise Edition (SE/EE) EC and one on the Micro Edition (ME) EC.  Any JCP program member may nominate themselves here.

On 20 October, the ballot for the ratified and open EC seats will be posted.  The  election will start on 20 October and end on 2 November.   The following seats are up for election this year: Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Doug Lea, Oracle on the SE/EE EC, and on the ME EC Ericsson AB, Motorola, Qisda, Siemens, Vodafone. There are also 2 more seats open due to the resignation of Nortel (SE/EE EC) and Philips (ME EC).  

There are 2 open JCP EC seats--nominate yourself today! Nominations will be open until 14 October.  More information on the EC Elections available here.

So the next revision to jcp.org is here, in conjunction with the roll-out of JCP 2.7 for all the JSRs that were previously operating under JCP 2.6. It's a lot for one day. But we in the PMO are holding a few events this week to help you with the transition, as well as some online guides to help people understand the changes and new features.

Here's the new site launch announcement: http://jcp.org/en/press/pmo/launch

Here's an overview of the new features: http://jcp.org/en/introduction/intro

We'll be having a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, 18 June. Details are here: http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/townhall 

Here's an overview of the changes for everyone in JCP 2.7: http://jcp.org/en/resources/2.7

Tomorrow, 17 June 2009, the PMO will host 2 calls for Spec Leads to present the new site's features and to answer any questions. the first call is at 08:00 PT, the second is at 17:00 PT; the content should be the same, other than the questions asked.

Call #1:

Topic: SL call for new jcp.org
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Time: 8:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

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Call #2:

Topic: SL Training for new jcp.org
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

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At the JavaOne Conference last week, we announced the winners of the seventh annual JCP Program Awards.  Congratulations to all of the winners and the nominess--you are what makes the community work!

The JCP PMO had many events during JavaOne.

 I tried to snap as many pictures as I could and they are finally available! Click on the images below to browse the albums:

JCP Community Party Java One 2009	Duke @ JCP Party - Java One 2009	2009 JCP Awards Ceremony	JavaOne 2009

The JCP program will hold its' annual party tonight at 7pm.  JCP members, JUG members, Java friends, Java One attendees...everyone  is invited to the always-anticipated Community Party at the Intercontinental Hotel.

The Program Office did the heavy lifting and went through the JavaOne conference content catalog looking for sessions with a focus on JSRs &/or the JCP--using keywords such as JSR, JCP, Java Community Process, Specification, and API, there were over 60 sessions.  The particular JavaOne sessions are sorted into the following editions of the Java Platform. 

There are 18 sessions with a focus on Java ME, 23 sessions with a focus on Java SE and 20 sessions with a focus on Java EE.

 Check it out...see you next week!

Yesterday the JCP introduced a new version of the program -- JCP 2.7.  This is a Maintenance Release of JSR 215.  We also announced the nominees of the 2009 JCP Program Annual Awards.  See the release here. 

Spec Leads can find out more out these changes by attending the workshop sponsored by the PMO on Monday 1 June in San Francisco, CA.  There are still a few spots left--contact the PMO if you are interested in attending.  Read about all of the JCP sponsored events at JavaOne, including the annual JCP program community party here .  Duke will be there, and the 2009 JCP Awards will also be presented there.  Plenty of food and drink as usual, and this year we will have t-shirts as well as a raffle/prize drawing!