Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for June 2026
Date
9 June 2026
Location
- Teleconference
- Roll call
- PMO topics including personnel changes, EC stats, and EC elections
- Java SE JSR updates (Iris Clark)
- jcp.org redesign
- Java in Education, Java Ecosystem, and Java & AI working group updates
- Feedback on presentations from Java User Groups (Java Dominicana and SouJava)
- 2026 calendar review, including Face-to-Face meeting on 2 October in Germany, hosted by SAP
Agenda
Attendance
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Since 94% 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.
For being absent from two meetings in a row, Microsoft will lose their voting privileges.
Personnel Changes
There have been no personnel changes since the last meeting.
Executive Committee Elections 2026
Information about the elections is posted on https://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections. Every year, some of the EC's terms end. This year, these are:
Ratified: Alibaba, Bellsoft, BNY, MicroDoc, SAP
Elected: Eclipse, Microsoft
Associate: Deep Netts
The timeline for the elections this year:
September 15-28, Nominations open
October 22, Meet the Candidates meeting 10 AM PT
November 2-16 Balloting
November 17 results announced
Public meeting in December with the new EC
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.
JSR Statistics
Since our last meeting, JSR 221 JDBC 4 posted its Maintenance Release 5, JSR 402 Java SE 27 continues, and JSR 403 Java SE 28 began.
Java SE 27
Iris Clark presented on JSR 402 Java SE 27.
JSR 402 will be in Public Review in a few weeks, starting in July.
You can find more information on the project page: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/27 and preview the Reference Implementation at https://jdk.java.net/27. You can also view the github repository at https://github.com/openjdk/jdk. The intent is for this release to incorporate JEPs 532, 527, 538, 531, 533.
JSR 269 is expected to have a Maintenance Review/Release. The review should come mid-July. We do not expect MRs for JSR 199 or 221.
Vector API will come out of incubation as soon as Valhalla comes (perhaps in Java SE 28).
jcp.org preview
Harold Ogle of the JCP Program Management Office gave a quick preview of the new site design. There was a suggestion to add a filter on the JSR list pages to allow users to show newer JSRs first.
Java in Education Working Group
Day in the Life examples are very popular; we have one from IBM and one from Oracle.
Next steps:
- developer focus session for conferences
- next Java in Education Working Group meeting will be on 23 June
- Heather will visit Japan JUGs at the end of June
Brayan Munoz of DRJUG shared about Java in Education.
DRJUG provides universities with workshops and speakers in response to stated interests for the students. Not everything they ask about is Java, but they use Java as their example in their presentations (how to use git, etc).
Bruno Souza of SouJava shared about bringing students to JUG meetings. Every single meeting that SouJava holds has a good number of students attending. If you have a local user group, or a connection to students, he suggested that you go there and meet with them.
Java and AI Working Group
There has been a presentation update:
- added a section for things that are happening in the ecosystem
- collecting feedback, sharing experiences with using the technology
In our public meeting today, we will walk through the updated presentation.
The next Java & AI Working Group meeting will be on 23 June 2026.
Yugo Sakamoto of SouJava talked about presenting the AI presentation to one of their user groups at a recent meetup. The meetup was about many topics, but Yugo shared about the Java and AI working group. There were 25 participants; more than 40% had 5+ years of experience, with the others just starting in the market. They asked for standardization blueprints for using Java for AI. Many of them are very focused on the harness part. None of them knew about Project Panama or Project Babylon. Yugo took the opportunity to translate the presentation to Brazilian Portuguese, and added a link to the GitHub page.
Yugo's talk: https://souj.org/jun26-campinas-ai
Java Ecosystem
Heather is planning to restart the Java Ecosystem Working Group this summer.
She will be putting in effort to form a community to outreach with maintainers and have them share with one another as well as with us in the Executive Committee.
She will share more at the August meeting.
Calendar/Upcoming Meetings
The next EC meeting will be on 11 August.
The next face-to-face meeting will be hosted by SAP on 2 October 2026 in Germany.
Goetz Lindemaier described that the location is at SAP HQ in Waldorf, which is near Heidelberg (closest major airport is Frankfurt). He outlined the following schedule:
1 October - University visit, JUG meeting (Goetz is trying to host a joint meeting for 3 nearby JUGs)
2 October - EC meeting followed by dinner reception
3 October - sightseeing
At this point, we adjourned to the public meeting.
Next Meeting
- 11 August 2026 8 AM - 10 AM Pacific Time (teleconference)
