Onno Kluyt

Welcome to the November edition of the JCP column! Each month you can read about the Java Community Process: newly submitted JSRs, new draft specs, Java APIs that were finalized, and other news from the JCP. For November I'll be covering a handful of new JSRs, several final JSRs including one rather longrunning one that has now reached the finish line, a plug for ApacheCon, and a report on the first phase of this year's EC elections. New JSRs Since the writing of last month's column, four new JSRs were submitted by JCP members. The first new JSR of this year was number 203, and the JSR count is now at 232; thus the community keeps running like clockwork and is on schedule to again hit the average of 40 to 45 new JSRs per year. This month Siemens has submitted two JSRs. JSR 229, Payment API for J2ME environment, will be developing an API to initiate payment transaction... (more)

The 2006 JCP EC Elections Are Over

(SYS-CON Media) - Congratulations go this year to IBM; Oracle, HP; Fujitsu; Doug Lea, professor of computer science; Motorola; Vodafone; Siemens; BenQ; Ericsson AB; and Jean-Marie Dautelle, individual developer and initiator of several open source projects. The first four are now re-elected on the SE/EE EC for another three-year term as a result of the Ratification Ballot and the fifth as a result of the Open Nominations/Election Ballot. Representing IBM on the EC, Mark Thomas leads the development teams in providing IBM software developer kits for Java technology. His development... (more)

From Within the Java Community Process Program

Welcome to the July edition of JSR Watch! Each month this column provides information about the JCP program: newly submitted JSRs, new draft specs, Java APIs that were finalized, and other news from the JCP program. This month's column discusses a set of new J2EE technology JSRs, and a scripting JSR, but I'll start off with the J2ME environment. Two J2ME JSRs Are Nearly Final JSR 179, Location API for J2ME technology, specifies how to write mobile location-based applications for devices with limited resources, producing information to an application about the device's physical loc... (more)

From Within the Java Community Process Program

Welcome to the December edition of the JCP column! Every month you can read about the Java Community Process: newly submitted JSRs, new draft specs, Java APIs that were finalized, and other news from the JCP. This month I'll cover how the elections are progressing, and a new JSR from Sun, two JSRs in Community Review, two in Public Review, and three on the Final Approval ballot. The Executive Committee Elections, the Open Election Stage This time there are two seats on each EC open for election. When you look at the candidates on the election Web site at http://jcpelection2003.org... (more)

From Within the Java Community Process Program

Welcome to the February edition of the JCP column! Each month you can read about the Java Community Process: newly submitted JSRs, new draft specs, Java APIs that were finalized, and other news from the JCP. This month I'll discuss four new JSRs and a few JSRs that are in the Proposed Final Draft and Public Review, and one final JSR. Let's Start with J2ME Technology A new JSR in this space is JSR 238, Mobile Internationalization API. It proposes to add culturally correct data formatting, and the sorting of text strings and such for MIDlets in a CLDC/MIDP environment, according to ... (more)