Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for February 2025

Date


February 10, 2026

Location


Attendance

Tuesday 10 February
PMO
  • Heather VanCura
  • Harold Ogle
Executive Committee
  • Alibaba - not present
  • Amazon.com Services - Volker Simonis - present
  • ARM - Stuart Monteith - present
  • Azul Systems - Gerrit Grunwald - present
  • Bellsoft - Pasha Finkelshteyn - present
  • BNY - Sirisha Pratha - present
  • Deep Netts - Zoran Sevarac - present
  • Eclipse - Ivar Grimstad - present
  • Fujitsu - Daishi Tabata, Kenji Kazumura - present
  • IBM - Gireesh Punathil - present
  • Intel - Derek White - present
  • JetBrains - Anton Arhipov - present
  • Microsoft - Brian Stafford - present
  • MicroDoc - Bruno Caballero - present
  • Oracle - Machiel Bolhuis - present
  • Ixchel Ruiz - present
  • SAP - Christoph Langer, Goetz Lindenmaier - present
  • SouJava - not present
Total attendance: 16 of 18 voting members
Since 75% of the EC's voting members were present, the EC was quorate for this session

Minutes


The EC Standing Rules state the following penalties for non-attendance at EC meetings (note that those who participate in face-to-face meetings by phone are officially counted as absent): There are no changes in voting privileges as a result of this meeting.

Personnel changes


There have been no personnel changes since the last EC meeting.

EC Stats and JCP Awards


Heather presented the usual EC stats and gave a quick rundown on the schedule for the JCP Awards (see the presentation for details).

JSR 401, Java SE 26 and JSR 402, Java SE 27


Iris Clark provided an update on two Java SE platform JSRs: 401 (26) and 402 (27). JSR 401 is in Public Review now: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/26.
JSR 402 is in early development: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/27/spec/. See Iris' presentation for further details.

JavaOne 2026 Update


JavaOne will be held on 17 - 19 March 2026.
Our JCP Social Event will be on Tuesday, 17 March, after the opening reception. It will include the presentation of the JCP Awards, and also breakout areas for the Working Groups.

jcp.org redesign


We are phasing in a new presentation/design for the jcp.org web site. Heather gave a preview of the design.

Java Ecosystem Working Group


This working group focuses on open source libraries and the process for keeping up to date with the current releases of Java. We had a Birds of a Feather session at Devoxx.The "Jackson" project lead will come and give a talk to the working group on 17 February. If you have other projects that would like to present to the working group, let Heather know.

Java in Education


This working group focuses on working with JUGs to bridge the gap between academia and industry. A number of updated materials have been posted to the Java in Education wiki, and Heather presented a list of the materials that are in development. This group will meet again on 24 February 2026, and again face-to-face in March at the JCP Social Event.

Java & AI Working Group


This working group focuses on changes to Java that support the use of the language for AI (and raising awareness of those changes). Heather outlined what work has been done and is coming soon. Zoran reviewed the e-mail prompt he will be sending to the panama-dev list owner for posting to the list. The Working Group will meet again on 10 March, and again on 17 March.

JEP 500: "Prepare to Make Final Mean Final"


Alex Buckley from the Java Platform Group at Oracle presented on JEP 500. This JEP will be delivered as part of Java SE 26 in March. The JEP in SE 26 introduces a default warning when deep reflection mutates a final field. In a future release, final field mutation will be disabled by default. Alex presented what the effects of this change might be, and went over recommendations for library maintainers to accommodate this change. See Alex's JEP 500 presentation for details.

Calendar


Upcoming events: On the 16 March we may have an event, on 17 March we have the JCP Social event (with working group breakout rooms), and on 20 March we have the (required) EC meeting. Later on 20 March we may have a JUG-related activity, too.
For that next meeting, it will be in the Bay Area on Friday, 20 March (the day after JavaOne). Microsoft said that it won't be able to host. If you are able to host in the Bay Area on 20 March, let Heather know.
SAP will host the Executive Committee on 2 October in Heidelberg, Germany.

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