We customize OpenJDK to meet the needs of rapidly growing business. Close to a million JVM instances are running, serving Alibaba's full spectrum of services, including world's largest online e-commerce, financial and logistics marketplaces. Alibaba will continue to innovate Java infrastructure technology based on OpenJDK.

Alibaba Position Statement (.pdf file)

Kingsum Chow is the chief scientist of system software hardware co-optimization. He has over 15 years of optimizing Java performance in collaboration with Appeal, IBM, BEA, Sun and Oracle JVM teams while working at Intel. In 2016, he joined Alibaba to improve Java performance in the data center. Kingsum has been issued more than 20 patents. He also has delivered more than 90 papers and presentations. Kingsum appeared four times in JavaOne keynotes.

Goldman Sachs is a financial services firm built on its global technology enterprise. Development at the firm is overwhelmingly Java-based, with more than 130 million lines of Java code and more than 3,000 Java developers; this code is used by the majority of the firm's end-users.

The firm custom-builds most of its software, and its historical reliance on open source components, as well as its extensive multi-vendor relationships, give it deep experience with problems of interoperability and systems/software integration. As a major consumer of Java, Goldman Sachs is thus deeply invested in its future, and seeks to contribute to Java standards. The firm remains committed to the continued evolution of Java, both through the innovation of the broad Java community, and the ongoing process of standardization.

The firm participates on both individual and corporate levels in a broad range of industry forums and leadership groups, as well as technical conferences including: JavaOne, JavaDay Tokyo, EclipseCon North America & Europe, JVM Language Summit, QCon New York, QCon Beijing, NY Java SIG, Japan Java User Group CCC, London Java Community, Hong Kong Java User Group, GIDS; contributions to various open source projects, including OpenJDK, Zookeeper, Spark. Goldman Sachs is an active participant in the JCP EC and has participated in several JSR Expert Groups, as well as hosting Java User Group meet ups in London and New York. Goldman Sachs VP, Nikhil Nanivadekar was recently recognized by the Java community as a 2018 Java Champion. The firm has open sourced the Eclipse Collections library (formerly GS Collections) and several other Java frameworks.

As a member of the JCP Executive Committee, our representative, Jackie Haynes, would put particular focus on ways to advance the role of Java in the enterprise, and on continuing and furthering the ability for any vendor or open source community to participate in the development of Java through the JCP.

Jackie Haynes works in the Core Engineering group at Goldman Sachs and runs the architecture team for the firms trading and risk platform. She has programmed in Java since 1999 and built a number of key systems at Goldman Sachs that run on the JVM. This year she is presenting at the Oracle Code One conference on Truffle and Graal, and has previously presented at other tech conferences. Jackie joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 was promoted to Technology Fellow in 2016 and Managing Director in 2017.

Most well-known for IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains aims to make development a more productive and enjoyable experience.

As a member of the Executive Committee, JetBrains brings multiple areas of expertise. We are
- developers that use Java extensively
- a producer of tools for developers, we understand the challenges of implementing new standards
- the creators of the JVM language Kotlin, we see the benefits of the JVM as a platform and understand its impact is wider than just Java-the-language
- active advocates for the Java platform, we help developers to learn about and adopt new APIs and standards

JetBrains believes involvement in the community is fundamental to helping the Java platform to evolve and before being on the JCP EC was involved in several Expert Groups, including JSR 305 (Annotations for Software Defect Detection), JSR 334 (Project Coin) and JSR 335 (Lambda Expressions).

Trisha Gee is a Java Champion and the Java Developer Advocate for JetBrains, a role which is perfect for her passion of evangelising Java after nearly 20 years of developing applications with it. Her goal is to help developers to "level up" as the language evolves. She has written and presented on Java 8 and 9, helping developers to understand how to use the new features and how to refactor to utilise the latest idioms, and now is helping developers stay up to date with six-monthly releases.

Before representing JetBrains on the Executive Committee, Trisha was previously involved in the JCP EC via the London Java Community, and helped to create the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK initiatives.

MicroDoc is technology oriented software development business with its headquarter in Munich Germany. It holds a ratified seat in the JCP EC since 2014 and has decided to run for the next election period to foster the development and growth of Java in the IoT eco system, where a variety of hardware architectures and operating systems require flexible adoption of the Java technology, while maintaining adherence to the Java standards must be guaranteed.

MicroDoc Position Statement (.pdf file)

Hendrik Hoefer is co-founder and technical director of MicroDoc Computersysteme GmbH based in Munich Germany. During his career Hendrik worked as developer, architect and project manager in embedded and enterprise projects. Today Hendrik is in charge of the technical direction at MicroDoc and works with customers on next generation telematics and cloud based products. His main interest is applying modern software engineering in embedded development.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software helping companies of all sizes and industries run better. A significant portion of SAP's customers run SAP solutions based on Java. SAP has participated in the JCP since 2001 and is also one of the biggest external OpenJDK contributors, currently leading the PowerPC/AIX and s390x OpenJDK projects. SAP is committed to ensuring the continued success of the Java platform for our customers, our partners, and the community at large.

Volker Simonis works on Java/JVM technologies for more than 10 years. He is an OpenJDK contributor from the very beginning and helped SAP to engage in the OpenJDK project. He's the project lead of the OpenJDK PowerPC/AIX and s390x porting projects, an OpenJDK reviewer and JCP Executive Committee representative for SAP. He also serves as a member of the JCP JSR 379, 383, 384 and 386 (Java SE 9-12) Expert Groups.

Software AG is a long standing active member of Java communities. Founded in 1969, Software AG is a major java centric enterprise software vendor with over 10,000 customers in more than 70 countries, with about 1 Billion Euros annual revenues.

The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the fourth largest in Europe.

Software AG's unique product portfolio encompasses webMethods, Apama, ARIS, Terracotta, Adabas, Cumulocity etc. business-lines. A major Java centric middleware platform provider - solutions spanning intelligent Business Operations, Cloud, BPMS, Integration, DB, Mobile and IoT.

As a long-standing member of JCP and active member of many expert groups and chair, we bring in the perspective of medium scale vendor and a significant java technology provider & consumer.

We have been on the JCP-EC for the past fnew years. The experience of the past two years has been very beneficial, though the process had been slow sometimes, as should be expected in a real standards body, especially when critical decisions are being made and significant changes are being legislated.

Software AG is very much committed to keeping JCP open and equally accessible to individuals and enterprises of all sizes, with RF IP terms. We are delighted to find that the JCP next effort is in fact is getting close to bringing us close to that openness. We have the resources to support the activities of JCP and JCP EC. Thank you!

As Vice President Product Development at Software AG, Prasad Yendluri is responsible for standards involvement, oversight and adoption, architecture and product strategy.

Prasad had been a long-standing member of JCP served as expert member of several JSRs, including JAXM, JAXB, JAXR, JAX-RPC JBI and JCA. Software AG also co-chairs JSR-107.

He had also been actively involved in a number bodies, including W3C, OASIS, WS-I, OMG, OSGi, Eclipse Foundation, CSCC etc. Active member and editor of several works including the WS- Policy, WS-Addressing, WSDL 2.0, WS-BPEL 2.0, BPEL4People, BPMN 2.0, WS-I Basic Profiles and SCA.

He served on the WS-I board for 6 years, and later on the steering committee for WS-I member section in OASIS. Also serves on the board for DMTF and OSGi. Additionallyserved on the Steering committee for AMQP member section in OASIS and also on CSCC steering committee at OMG.

Co-author of several specifications, including CAMP, TOSCA, WS-MeX, WS-Discovery, SOAP/JMS, BPMN 2.0. Published numerous technical articles in several Web services journals. Significant contributor to UDDI and lead architect and co-author of the RosettaNet Implementation Frameworks. He is inventor and co-inventor with several granted patents and patent applications in progress.

Prior to joining Software AG Prasad worked for companies such as Netscape, AOL, Siemens, Unisys, Amdahl in various senior positions in software development and architecture. Prasad Yendluri holds a MS in Computer Science and a BS in Electrical Engineering.

BNY Mellon Technology, with a $2.4 billion-and-growing budget and more than 13,000 technologists and developers globally, provides critical technology infrastructure and applications to support the bank's role as a leading provider of clearing, payments, custody, and asset management services to the global financial markets. Our technology plays a core and significant role in the global financial markets, in addition to delivering secure, reliable, and innovative systems to our clients.

Our group of leading technologists and developers innovate solutions that support BNY Mellon's role as one of the largest investments company that oversees $33.6 trillion in assets under custody as of June 30, 2018. With over 100 million lines of Java code under management, the Java ecosystem is increasingly a critical part of the technology stack across the BNY Mellon enterprise. We recently open sourced our first project, BNY Mellon Code Katas, which are a set of educational exercises that enable Java engineers to continually develop and refine their skills as they aim to keep pace with the new six-month Java release train.

As a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC), our representative, Don Raab, Managing Director and Instructional Coach on the Shared Services Team will focus on helping Java and BNY Mellon evolve their strategic investment in the enterprise. He is the creator of the Eclipse Collections Java Library and was selected as a 2018 Java Champion. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, he was an active and influential representative on the JCP EC when he was a Technology Fellow at Goldman Sachs.

The Bank of New York Mellon Position Statement (.pdf file)

Donald (Don) Raab is a Managing Director and Instructional Coach on the Shared Services Team, BNY Mellon. Don has more than 17 years' experience as a Software Engineer in the Financial Services industry. He started programming with Java in 1997. Don is a member of the JSR 335 Expert Group (Libraries) and is also the creator of the Eclipse Collections Java Library that was originally open sourced as GS Collections in 2012 and migrated to the Eclipse Foundation in 2015. Donald was selected as a 2018 Java Champion, and he is a frequent speaker and guest trainer at key Java conferences and user group meetups including Oracle CodeOne, JavaOne, QCon New York, Devnexus, Devoxx US, EclipseCon, JVM Language Summit and Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS).

V2COM is a leading Latin American provider of Industrial IoT and Smart Grid technologies, using Java from field (embedded) to datacenter. During our previous terms, we co-lead JSR 363 and participated in EC meetings with as a Java customer for both embedded and server-side. We also championed the effort for embedded Java in the Java ME Working Group. We believe that Java is the best tool for IoT and want to continue fostering the use of Java in this space.

Leonardo Lima is CTO at V2COM, leading the development of both embedded software for edge/field devices and server-side software. He has more than ten years of development and architectural experience on mobile, embedded, and server Java platforms that enable management and operation of highly scalable and fast IoT systems. Lima is V2COM's primary representative in the JCP since 2014, JSR 363 co-spec lead and was nominated Java Champion in 2017 for fostering embedded Java.

Azul delivers Java Runtime (JDKs, JREs) for enterprise, cloud, developer, and embedded environments. Azul makes Zulu, the high-quality binary distribution of the OpenJDK 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ... Java SE platforms. Zulu is freely available for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows, platforms, with optional commercial support. Azul's flagship Zing product focuses on predictable and consistent "glitch-free" performance, scalability, speed, low latency, and production-time visibility for business-critical Java applications.

Azul is a member of the Java SE Expert groups (for 9, 10, 11, ...), and an enthusiastic OpenJDK community member, and recognized as "JCP Member of the Year". Azul was the first non-Oracle company to successfully author an OpenJDK JEP that has made it into the actual Java specification (JEP 285). We are encouraged to see additional community members following that path, with new non-Oracle-originated features making it into Java SE.

Since first being elected to the JCP Executive Committee in 2011, Azul has been an active EC member and an advocate for community interests within the EC. Azul has taken strong positions on protecting community rights, access to technology, and the roles and influence of individual Java developers as JCP members. Azul has specifically taken the position that the Java community process should be largely influenced by the developers that consume and use the technology standards produced, with voting rights and influence paths secured for all members and not limited to the companies that define and form those standards.

Azul Systems Position Statement (.pdf file)

Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder at Azul Systems, and has been active on the JCP EC since 2011. Gil is an official "JavaOne RockStar", and a frequent speaker at developer conferences and JUGs, and recognized as "JCP Member of the Year". Gil has been building virtual machines for over 20 years. He founded Azul Systems with the goal of eliminating common Java responsiveness and deployment barriers, and pioneered several Java firsts, including Pauseless Garbage Collection. In past lives, he also designed and built operating systems, network switches, firewalls, and laser based mosquito interception systems.

Simon Ritter is Deputy CTO at Azul Systems. Simon started working with Java shortly after he joined Sun Microsystems in 1996. During his time at Sun and then Oracle he held various roles covering Java development, consultancy and marketing. Since 2000, he focused primarily on evangelising the Java platform to developers culminating in managing the Java Technology Evangelism team before moving to Azul in 2015. Simon has twice been awarded "JavaOne Rockstar" status and is now an elected Java Champion. He has presented at virtually every Java conference around the world on a wide variety of subjects including embedded Java, JavaFX, all areas of Java SE and Java EE. Now at Azul, Simon represents Azul on the Java SE 9, 10, 11, ... expert groups.

As a large community group (roughly ~2500 members), we will incorporate feedback from the community at large into our decisions regarding future JSR's. Through our Adopt-A-JSR program, we have both invited and encouraged members to get involved in the JCP process. We also cultivate relationships with other User Groups worldwide. We support a level playing field for contributing specifications and the OpenJDK.

Janine started with Core Java in the financial field, with a main focus on high performance, low garbage collection, and binary data interchange formats like Fix/Fast. Since then she's moved on to microservices architecture and cloud platforms. As the President of CJUG, she organizes many events, including their Office Hours sessions. She is a conference speaker and kids' mentor with an emphasis on Core Java, new language features, and solid production design principles.

The Eclipse Foundation has been participating on the JCP Executive Committee since 2007. As the home of the Eclipse Java IDE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, the Eclipse Java Compiler, and OpenJ9 we are very much committed to the Java ecosystem. Our primary contribution to the JCP EC has been to represent the interests of the open source community, and for independent implementations of Java Specs.

Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, a position he has held since 2004. He has been on the JCP Executive Committee since 2007. He is also a part member of the OpenJDK Board and the Board of the Open Source Initiative. In these roles he has been a strong advocate for vendor-neutral, community-based open source within the Java ecosystem.

For several years we've run "Adopt a JSR", "Adopt OpenJDK" and other advocacy initiatives. To improve day-to-day developer participation in Java standards. With Java EE moving to Jakarta EE and OpenJDK on a new 6-month release cadence, the JCP will require strong input from their users (developers) to ensure that Java remains the #1 developer platform of choice. If re-elected, in addition to being involved in formal JSR processes we will continue to evangelize Java and run practical hack days.

London Java Community Position Statement (.pdf file)

Martijn Verburg is the co-leader of the London Java User Group (LJC), and helps lead the global effort of Java User Group members who contribute to JSRs (Adopt a JSR) and OpenJDK (Adopt OpenJDK). Martijn is on the Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) Steering committee and is a regular speaker on advanced Java and team topics. Martijn co-authored "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" with Ben Evans and was added as a Java Champion in 2012 for services to the ecosystem.

Over 17 years of experience as Senior Java developer / Solution Designer / Lead Developer withextensive experience in Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration /Delivery. Expertise in solutioning, designing, specifying and developing applications using SOA and Microservices based architecture on multiple platforms including AWS. Expert member of Java Specification Request 255 - Java Management Extensions (JMX).

Joseph Aruja Position Statement (.pdf file)

Over 17 years of experience as Senior Java developer / Solution Designer / Lead Developer withextensive experience in Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration /Delivery. Expertise in solutioning, designing, specifying and developing applications using SOA and Microservices based architecture on multiple platforms including AWS. Expert member of Java Specification Request 255 - Java Management Extensions (JMX).

Marcus wants to join the executive JCP committee so that he can participate in helping to formalize, standardize and evolve Java technologies. Java is a powerful language that has grown a lot over the years. Marcus wants to actively contribute to ensure that Java continues to meet the requirements of a modern programming language, while still allowing us to write simple, clean code.

Marcus (@MarcusBiel) has been developing in Java since 2001. From the start, he's been passionate about this language that allows the writing of clean code that can be understood not only by computers but also by humans. He is a Java influencer, clean code evangelist, author, consultant and speaker at international conferences and JUGs. As a senior developer and architect, Marcus worked in many different Java-related projects, mostly in the finance and telecommunications industries.

Not Representing an organization.

Ivar Grimstad Position Statement (.pdf file)

Ivar Grimstad is a Java Champion, Oracle Developer Champion and JUG Leader. He is participating in the Java Community Process as a member of the Executive Committee, Spec Lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0) and has served as Expert Group Member for a number of JSRs. He is the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) and a member of the Jakarta EE Working Group. Ivar is also an Apache NetBeans Committer.

Izmir JUG is non-profit organization focused on Java based technologies. Izmir JUG has organized many java events in universities collaboration with local university groups and Habitat foundation. It has provided many advantages to its members.(discounts, conference participation, networking) Izmir JUG cooperates with Eclipse foundation as a partner. With this partnership, Izmir JUG sponsored Eclipse conference in Germany. Izmir JUG has been involved in creation of many JUG groups in Turkey.

Simply, Ceyhun is a totally technology enthusiastic. He has passion of communities and collaboration. He is founder of Izmir JUG, JCP associate member, Eclipse foundation associate member and Java Guardians member. He is software engineer at Netas. He has been active in JVM ecosystem since around 2011. He was invited as a speaker to the JavaOne conference in 2016 and many local speeches.