As you might have noticed,  the jcp.org website has been down a few times for a few hours recently.

We have investigating the cause and found that we have been targeted by a bot with a Denial of Service attack that
triggered a bug in the web server that we are currently using ad is causing the server process to crash.

A fix is on its way and will be deployed as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience in coping with the inconvenience of having the website down in such a critical timeframe as the JavaOne week.

The JCP Program Management Office

JCP is at QCon08 this week (March 12-14, 2008) with two events:
the Open Source and Open Standards Panel hosted by Patrick
Curran and the JCP and JUG Meet-Up which will bring together
Spec Leads and Java Champions Thursday night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, check out Patrick's blog for more on the panel.

 

Last time I looked at women's participation in the JCP it was in 2006. The list was not long but impressive in terms of the breadth and depth of these women's contributions.
It included Ekaterina Chtcherbina of Siemens, Linda DeMichiel of Sun Microsystems, Jaana Majakangas of Nokia Corporation, Pia Niemela of Nokia Corporation, Ellen Siegel of Sun Microsystems, Mary Trumble of IBM. All Spec Leads and Star Spec Leads of important JSRs. Some have added more JSRs to their spec lead portfolio since then.
Today on March 8, to all of them and others who have joined the community since then, happy International Women's Day. Their accomplishments are examples of how far women have come in this world and how they have influenced and shaped all walks of life including technology.

Since Wednesday morning the Santa Clara Auditorium is buzzing with activities. The Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days event has taken over the stage with technical sessions, lightning talks and poster sessions. Developers, technologists, and community members from near and far have responded to the invite of the Mobile & Embedded open source community and for two days they are sharing with each other their experience and accomplishments with the technology. JCP members are also participating. I've compiled below a "JCP Sessions Itinerary", take a peak, check them out, you'll learn about standards projects for Java ME and why the standards work in the Java ME space matters to developers. If you missed yesterday's sessions go to the event site (https://developerdays.dev.java.net), you'll find instructions about how you can access the recordings. To view the entire line up of sessions go to  https://developerdays.dev.java.net/sessions.html/

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
TS-5: Past, Present and Future of JSR 82
(Java BlueTooth APIs)
Presenter: Sean O Sullivan
CTO, Rococo Software

Thursday, January 24, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST

TS-15: The JCP: your friendly neighborhood standards organization
Presenter: Patrick Curran
JCP Chair and Director of Program Office
Sun Microsystems

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TS-18: Smashing Maps on Mobile With JSR 293 Location API 2.0
Presenter: Carl Snellman
Senior Mobile Engineer
Nokia, Inc.

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TS-22: Seamless Integration of Multi-Tasking Applications with CHAPI
Roger Riggs
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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LT-6: What is the number one thing the EC can do to make your life easier?
Sean Sheedy
Consultant and JCP EG member

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PS-11: Java ME and the Java Community Process (JCP)
Max Lanfranconi
Marketing Manager
Program Office of the Java Community Process

Enjoy the ride!

Corina 

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It's been an eventful October with lots of industry events - big and small all around the world. The PMO has heard back from Spec Leads who participated at some of these events. Among them Jens Paetzhold from Sun who gave a talk about the latest Java ME JSRs and the JCP Program at the J-Fall 2007 Conference of the Netherlands Java User Group (NL-JUG). Jens' talk drew attendees interested in the deployment of the Mobile Service Architecture coming to mobile devices and in upcoming technologies such as MIDP3, XML API, Service Connection API. "J-Fall was very well attended and totally worth while participating", Jens told us.

Hope to hear back from more of you with feedback from industry events.

Corina

 

The first and second phase of the 2007 Java Community Process (JCP) EC elections are completed. The third and last phase is  under way. (See my previous article on the same subject)

All the proposed ratified members have been elected during phase I:

Standard / Enterprise Edition Executive Committee
Number of eligible voters: 936
Percent voting members casting votes: 26.0%

Apache Software Foundation     94.9%
Red Hat Middleware LLC     87.3%
Nortel     75.5%


Micro Edition Executive Committee
Number of eligible voters: 936
Percent voting members casting votes: 26.0%

Research In Motion, LTD (RIM)    92.7%
Samsung Electronics Corporation     91.3%
Time Warner Cable Inc.     66.8% 

During Phase II the following members nominated themselves: 

Nominees for the Standard / Enterprise Edition Executive Commitee

• Codegear
• Eclipse Foundation, Inc
• Ericsson AB
• Google Inc.
• Interface21 Inc
• Meffert, Klaus
• Pierre-Henry, Perret

Nominees for the Micro Edition Executive Commitee

• Anjos, Luiz Carlos Bentes dos
• Intel Corp.
• Luz, Marlon Faria da
• Orange France SA
• Sheedy, Sean

 Phase III of the elections is running from today, October 30, until November 12. The final results will be announced on November 13. Further details available at the elections site.

The latest issue of the JCP newsletter has just been published on jcp.org.

And while you are voting keep an eye on JSRs too ... Among the October movers to today 10/11/07 is  JSR 309, Media Server Control API, from BEA and HP; the co-Spec Leads have recently posted the JSR's Early Draft which will be under EC review until October 22.

Another mover is JSR 298, Telematics API for Java ME; it's driven by SK Telecom Co., it has just passed public review vote.

And a finisher this month is JSR 196, Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers, developed by Sun; the Spec Lead published the final release on Oct. 10.

Tip off for keeping close tabs on JSR updates, check "Focus on JSRs" on JCP.ORG and the public pages of the specs highlighted under this section where you'll find all the details. Signing off for now from JSR lane.

The first phase of the 2007 Java Community Process (JCP) EC elections is under way, providing developers a chance to influence the future directions of Java standards.

The Java Community Process (JCP) is the process that guides the evolution of standard Java APIs (JSR). The JCP is made up of two executive committees (EC), one devoted to Java SE/EE, and the other to Java ME.

Each year, one third of each executive committee is up for election by the community. In the first phase of the JCP elections, the community votes on PMO's nominees, while the second phase invites nominations from the broader community.

The EC members guide the evolution of the Java technologies. The EC represents a cross-section of both major stakeholders and other members of the Java Community. Duties are: select JSRs for development, approve draft Specifications for Public Review, approve Final Specifications, review TCK appeals, approve Maintenance revisions and possibly defer some features to a new JSR, approve transfer of maintenance duties between members and provide guidance to the Program Management Office (PMO).

This year, the Apache Software Foundation, Borland, Google, Nortel, Red Hat on the EE/SE side, and Intel, DoCoMo, RIM, Orange, and Samsung, on the ME side, are up for re-election.


During the Ratification Vote, members vote to ratify each Program Management Office (PMO)-nominated member. The following seats are on the Ratification Ballot:

Standard/Enterprise Edition Executive Committee (SE/EE EC)

• Apache Software Foundation
• Nortel
• Red Hat Middleware LLC

Micro Edition Executive Committee (ME EC)

• Research In Motion, LTD (RIM)
• Samsung Electronics Corporation
• Time Warner Cable Inc.

Following the ratification, members are eligible to nominate themselves for the remaining seats (October 16 - 26) and vote in the final Elections.

Voting is open to developers who join the JCP.