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 JCP Executive Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 March 2026

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for March 2026

Date


March 20, 2026

Location


  • In-person only, Oracle Executive Briefing Center, Redwood City, CA, USA

Attendance

Friday 20 March 2026
PMO
  • Heather VanCura
  • Harold Ogle
Executive Committee
  • Alibaba - Denghui Dong - present
  • Amazon.com Services - Volker Simonis, Paul Hohensee - present
  • ARM - not present
  • Azul Systems - Simon Ritter - present
  • Bellsoft - Pasha Finkelshteyn - present
  • BNY - not present
  • Deep Netts - Zoran Sevarac - present
  • Eclipse - Ivar Grimstad - present
  • Fujitsu - Daishi Tabata - present
  • IBM - Claudia Beisiegel - present
  • Intel - Sandhya Viswanathan - present
  • JetBrains - Anton Arhipov, Andrei Kogun - present
  • Microsoft - not present
  • MicroDoc - not present
  • Oracle - Dan Smith, John Rose, Alex Buckley, Iris Clark, Paul Sandoz, Bernard Traversat, Georges Saab - present
  • Ixchel Ruiz - present
  • SAP - Amos Shi - present
  • SouJava - Bruno Souza, Luiz Real, Fabio Velloso - present
Total attendance: 14 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):
  • Missing two meetings in a row results in a loss of voting privileges until one meeting has been attended.
  • Missing five meetings in a row, or missing two-thirds of the meetings in any consecutive 12-month period results in loss of the EC seat.

There are no changes in voting privileges as a result of this meeting.

Personnel Changes


Amos Shi is a new alternate for SAP. Andrei Kogun is a new alternate for JetBrains. Mark Stoodley is the new primary for IBM.

JSR Updates


Heather shared the JSR updates (see presentation for details). All members of the EC voted and approved the JSR 401 Public Review Final Approval Ballot.

Java SE JSRs update


Iris Clark of Oracle presented about the completed JSR 401, Java SE 26, and the next Java SE JSR, JSR 402. JSR 402's Public Review is expected in June. See the presentation for more details.

Java 26


Alex Buckley of Oracle presented on Java 26, JSR 401. Oracle JDK 26 released this Tuesday, 17 March 2026. This contains 10 JEPs, five of which he briefly summarized: 530, 517 HTTP3, 525 Structured Concurrency, 526 Lazy Constants, 524 Privacy-Enhanced Mail API, 500, 504, 529, 522, 516. See the presentation for more details.

Valhalla presentation


Dan Smith of Oracle gave a presentation on the first significant JEPs of Valhalla. JEP 401 is about Value Classes and Objects. JEP Strict Field Initialization in the JVM. He also talked about objects. They expect that these changes may be ready as early as FY28. See the presentation for more details.

Leyden update


John Rose of Oracle presented on project Leyden, improving times for startup and warmup, by using training runs to create AOT caches. JEP 483 was introduced in JDK 25. See the presentation for more details.

Project Babylon


Paul Sandoz of Oracle presented on Babylon, starting by presenting a demo of shadertoy recreated entirely on JVM code running on a GPU. He talked about Code Reflection, with a JEP draft, and the Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit (HAT). See the presentation for more details.

JCP Awards


Heather summarized the results of the 2025 JCP Awards ceremony. Don Raab won the Member/Participant of the Year, and Hokkaido JUG won the Java in Education award.

Working Group Updates


Heather talked about the Java in Education Working Group. The next meeting of that group will be held on 14 April.
Then she talked about the Java and AI Working Group. Zoran is helping lead the Java and AI Working Group. The next meeting will be held on 21 April. Zoran made the point that Panama doesn't make AI available, but rather the building blocks to facilitate the use of AI.
Heather concluded with the news of the Java Ecosystem Working Group: Heather is looking for volunteers to help lead the working group.

Java Benchmarking


Bernard Traversat of Oracle presented the challenges of benchmarking Java, and the progress/success that those benchmarks indicate. Volker expressed interest in seeing the benchmark tests and their results. See the presentation for more details.

Oracle Host Presentation


Georges Saab of Oracle reviewed the JavaOne conference held earlier in the week. Most of the sessions were recorded and posted to the YouTube channel. He reiterated key highlights from JavaOne: the Java Verified Portfolio, Project Detroit, and the release of JDK 26.

SAP Case Study: Migrations and Contributions


Amos Shi of SAP presented the story about discovering a bug in the code of an HCM product, and the long process of updating JDK versions that resulted from that. See the presentation for more details.

Java Conferences in Europe


Ixchel Ruiz presented on the European Java Conferences, JUGs, and Meetups in 2025. She also talked about the Hackergarten. See the presentation for more details.

SouJava presentation


Bruno Souza and Luiz Real of SouJava presented on SouJava activities and their engagement with Java in Education. There are a lot of young people in Brazil wanting to learn Java. They talked about some of the challenges, like the need to go to a JUG meeting outside of the university being a stumbling block. The solution is to bring the events to the universities. See the presentation for more details.

Java Universe - Reaching for the Stars


Cilla presented a visualization of the JCP and OpenJDK, including mapping of JSRs and JEPs.

Calendar Discussion


Heather reviewed the remaining JCP EC Meeting Dates on the calendar for 2026. Our next face-to-face meeting will be on 2 October in Germany, hosted by SAP. Fujitsu has volunteered to host our Spring 2027 face-to-face meeting in Tokyo. We will investigate scheduling it to coincide with the Japanese CCC in May. We still need a volunteer to host our face-to-face meeting in Fall 2027. This could be in Europe, perhaps? If you are interested in hosting the EC for a face-to-face meeting, contact Heather. Heather thanked Oracle for hosting the EC meeting, and then adjourned to the dinner reception following the meeting.

Next Meeting


  • 9 June 2026 8 AM - 10 AM Pacific Time (teleconference, second hour is public)