As one of the world's largest users of Java, Alibaba is deeply committed to Java's success. We utilize Java across diverse business scenarios, with tens of thousands of developers contributing over a billion lines of Java code. Our involvement in the OpenJDK and active contribution to the OpenJDK update and tip projects are a testament to this commitment. Since the last JCP EC election, we introduced 7 more authors along with 2 more committers to the OpenJDK community. Alibaba's contributions to OpenJDK position us among the notable external contributors. To support RISC-V, we first kicked off the RISC-V support in OpenJDK 11u and completed the main porting work. Further, we enhanced the Loom project's functionality on RISC-V. As a member of the GraalVM Project Advisory Board, Alibaba is actively engaged in the project. In the GraalVM tip project, we have implemented an innovative approach to support Java agent so that native image runtime observability becomes possible in production use. Alibaba's involvement in the Java community extends beyond the Java Runtime. We actively participate on the corporate level in a wide range of open-source projects in the Apache and Eclipse communities. We are the most significant contributor to Apache Flink, Dubbo, RocketMQ, etc. As a founding strategic member of the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group, Alibaba actively contributes to Eclipse Migration Toolkit for Java(EMT4J) and AQAvit sub-projects under Adoptium, co-working with community members to strive to ensure developers have access to a vendor-neutral, high-quality, reliable Java platform. As a member of the JCP EC, we look forward to a stronger relationship with the Java community, contributing more to JCP, and collaborating with the industry for the common good of the Java ecosystem.

Alibaba Position Statement (.pdf file)

Sanhong Li has been working on Java since 2004, when he began at Intel, implementing JSR135. He progressed to working on developing IBM's J9VM in 2010, where he led a project to develop multi-tenancy technology for the JVM. In 2014, he joined Alibaba to lead the development of Alibaba Dragonwell, a downstream of OpenJDK. He has authored over twenty technical patents/papers in the areas of managed runtime and presented at various conferences such as JVMLS, JavaOne, QCon, etc. He is a Java Champion and the co-leader of the GreenTea JUG (the largest JUG in China), Alibaba's representative of the GraalVM Project Advisory Board, and Eclipse Adoptium PMC member.

BellSoft's mission is to make Java technology the #1 choice for modern enterprises. To achieve this compound goal, BellSoft delivers the most complete Java experience with a more secure, reliable, and cost-effective approach to application development on any platform and in any environment.

BellSoft releases and supports a free and secure OpenJDK binary distribution compliant with Java SE Standard — Liberica JDK. Liberica JDK is available for all major versions of the Java SE specification, most platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris), and the largest number of present-day architectures (x86 64/32 bit, ARM, PowerPC, SPARC), including microservices-based ones. Therefore, BellSoft‘s Liberica JDK presents a Unified Java Runtime: one runtime for cloud, server, and desktop use cases.

BellSoft's team believes that Java can be flexible and adaptive in response to ongoing business changes. We rely on continuous feedback from thousands of our clients to develop new solutions with the community, while also preserving industry traditions and maintaining the highest quality standards. BellSoft greatly appreciates the role of Java SE in the success of the technology, thus all Liberica JDK binaries are TCK-verified in compliance with the Java SE specification.

We trust technology standards to guide further Java enhancements and keep its community vibrant. Easily accessible technology standards for those working on Java's future help the Java ecosystem thrive. Besides OpenJDK, BellSoft provides the minimized and optimized Linux distribution, Alpaquita Linux, created to address Java pain points.

BellSoft Position Statement (.pdf file)

With 15 years of Java experience, Aleksei Voitylov, PhD, is the CTO and co-founder of BellSoft, a company that releases and supports an OpenJDK binary distribution for a variety of platforms called Liberica JDK. Throughout his career at Sun and Oracle, Aleksei worked with various JVMs and JSR implementations (Java ME, Java SE, and Java EE) and, in particular, helped deliver multiple components of the JDK 8 and 9 releases, including HotSpot JVM and the Java Language.

He founded BellSoft with the ambition of providing a free, high-quality, and supported Java SE Runtime that would remain relevant for all use cases, from embedded to cloud and enterprise. Aleksei is an Open Source Evangelist, actively involved with Java open source communities and projects. He is also an OpenJDK contributor who takes part in various Java developer conferences, ranging from Oracle Code One to local JUGs, and contributes articles to the Java Magazine.

BNY Technology, with over $3.5 billion budget in 2024, has more than 12,000 technologists globally, supporting the bank's role as a leading provider of global financial services. We innovate solutions that support BNY’s role as one of the largest investments companies in the world, managing $49.5 trillion in assets under custody as of July 30, 2024. The Java ecosystem is a significant part of the technology stack across the firm. BNY is represented by Java Champions and Java User Group Leaders at the JCP Executive Committee: Sirisha Pratha, Rodrigo Graciano and Victor Grazi. BNY proudly includes Java Champion Loiane Groner in their team.

Java Community Involvement:

• Actively involved in the EC as a current ratified member
• Hosted JCP EC 2023 Face-to-Face event at BNY Headquarters in NY 30+ attendees
• Participating in OpenJDK Quality Outreach Program via Spring and Code Katas
• Committed to Java in Education via work groups
• Leading Java User Groups in New York City, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh
• Engaging with the community via presentations, blogs, workshops for all levels of developers
• Maintaining Open-Source Code Katas to help teach language and library features to keep pace with the six-month Java release train
• Project creator of Java Concurrent Animated - an Open-Source library for helping tens of thousands learn Java Concurrency
• Actively contributing to Eclipse Collections Open-Source library
• Book authorship to learn about Java ecosystem, "Real World Java" by Victor Grazi
• Rodrigo Graciano elected as a Java Champion from BNY in November 2022

BNY Position Statement (.pdf file)

Sirisha Pratha is a Senior Vice President in Application Development at BNY. Sirisha has more than 14 years of experience as a Java Software Developer. Sirisha is a InfoQ Editor, committer on Eclipse Collections, an Open Source Java Collections Library. Sirisha co-leads Pittsburgh Java User Group and regularly speaks and attends at various other Java User Group meetups.

Creator of IntelliJ IDEA, one of the most popular Java IDEs, JetBrains makes development a more productive and enjoyable experience for developers across the globe. JetBrains sets a high bar for itself in supporting new Java features in IntelliJ IDEA (including preview features), increasing their adoption by the developer community.

As a member of the Executive Committee, JetBrains brings multiple areas of expertise. We are:

- developers that use Java extensively to develop our wide suite of tools.
- the creators of JVM language Kotlin, and understand the benefits of the JVM as a platform and know its impact is wider than just Java-the-language.
- leaders who understand the challenges of implementing new standards since we create tools for developers.
- active advocates for the Java platform, and 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, JetBrains was involved in several Expert Groups, including JSR 305 (Annotations for Software Defect Detection), JSR 334 (Project Coin) and JSR 335 (Lambda Expressions).

Mala Gupta works as a Developer Advocate with JetBrains. A Java Champion, she has authored multiple books with Manning, Packt, and O'Reilly Publications on Java. She often presents at industry conferences on modern Java features and has over two decades of experience in the industry. She has been actively supporting Oracle's Java certification as a path to career advancement. She co-leads Delhi's Java User Group.

MicroDoc, headquartered in Munich, Germany, has been a driving force in the Java ecosystem since 2000. As experts in embedded Java Virtual Machines (VMs), we deliver solutions for key industries including automotive, energy, and healthcare. Our long-standing commitment to open standards is evident through our active contributions to both the OpenJDK and GraalVM projects, reinforcing our leadership in the field.

Since joining the Java Community Process Executive Committee (JCP EC) in 2014, MicroDoc has played a crucial role in shaping Java’s future, particularly for embedded systems. We address challenges in performance, optimization, and scalability, ensuring Java's continued relevance across diverse hardware architectures while maintaining strict adherence to Java standards.

Looking forward, MicroDoc is dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the Java ecosystem by focusing on running AI algorithms locally on embedded devices. This approach enhances data security, privacy and compliance with GDPR by processing data directly on the device, minimizing the need for data transmission. Our goal is to integrate these AI capabilities into Java for intelligent, secure, and efficient embedded applications. Through our active participation in the JCP, Expert Groups, and industry events, MicroDoc offers a forward-thinking perspective that will drive Java’s evolution in the realm of smart and secure technologies.

MicroDoc Position Statement (.pdf file)

Bruno Caballero is a software engineer at MicroDoc, based in Berlin, Germany. With extensive experience in embedded software development, Bruno has worked on a diverse array of projects throughout his career. Over the past year, he has been focused on integrating artificial intelligence algorithms into embedded devices, alongside his ongoing work porting the Java virtual machine to new hardware platforms and operating systems. Bruno also assists clients in developing Java solutions for embedded devices and is particularly interested in exploring new methodologies to enhance the speed and security of Java applications.

With over 250,000 enterprise customers, SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. A significant portion of those SAP customers run SAP software based on Java. SAP is committed to the continued success of Java. It is part of SAPs latest cloud offerings, tools as SAP Build Code want to empower even more people to develop business applications with Java, always based on the latest technology as currently Java 21. We embrace the Tip&Toe scheme: most of our JVM usages have moved away from Java 11 to 17 and 21. SAP has participated in the JCP since 2001, and collaborated in over 50 JSRs. SAP contributes to OpenJDK since 2012. It is among the biggest external contributors to the OpenJDK project. It currently leads the OpenJDK 17 updates project and the AIX/ppc port project. Further SAP is heavily involved in the OpenJDK 11 and 21 updates projects aiming to keep all SAP Supported OpenJDK LTS versions up to date. SAP is member of the vulnerability group preparing fixes for security issues. It concentrates on improving stability and servicability, core properties needed for business applications. SAP offers SapMachine, a free build of OpenJDK on a broad variety of platforms.

Götz Lindenmaier works for SAP for more than 19 years. During this time he was involved in various projects around the SAP Java Virtual Machine. With his background in compiler construction he started with porting Java 5 to the Itanium platform integrating an instruction scheduler in C2. This is still live in SAP's Java 8 JVM. After working on the ppc and s390 port he continued enhancing the SAP Java Virtual Machine with new features and maintaining it. Götz is OpenJDK reviewer for a long time and helped SAP and its Java VM team engage in the OpenJDK project. He contributed the AIX, ppc and s390 ports on behalf of SAP. The ppc port was the first platform port to make it to the mainline of OpenJDK breaking the ice for further large contributions. Currently Götz is the lead of the OpenJDK 17 updates project and participating in the OpenJDK 11 and 21 updates projects. In this role he monitors all changes contributed to these jdks to assure stability and quality while allowing the necessary modernization to keep them relevant for modern systems.

Eclipse Foundation has been participating as a champion of open source on the JCP Executive Committee since 2007. As the home of the Eclipse Java IDE, Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE), MicroProfile, Adoptium, and the Eclipse Temurin Java SE runtime, the Eclipse Java Compiler, Eclipse Collections, and OpenJ9 we are very much committed to an open Java ecosystem.

Our primary contribution to the JCP EC has always been to represent the interests of the open source community, and for independent implementations of Java specifications. We also have a specification process that has been used successfully for Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, Eclipse Sparkplug, and AsciiDoc.

We would like to continue representing our communities and others with similar interests on the JCP EC and would appreciate your support.

Eclipse Foundation Position Statement (.pdf file)

Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He has served on the EC since 2016, worked on several JSRs and has been awarded as Outstanding Spec Lead and Star Spec Lead. At Eclipse Foundation, he works with Jakarta EE as well as multiple other open source projects within the Java ecosystem.

Google believes open source solves real-world problems for everyone. Google has supported open source innovation, collaboration, and sustainability throughout the years. We have a strong track record of contributing to the open source community with projects such as Chromium, Kubernetes, Cloud Native Computing Foundation as well as prior participation in the JCP Executive Committee. We have been involved with Java and the JCP for over 20 years through our work on enhancements, standards and specifications. We want to actively support the continued success of Java as a member of the Executive Committee.

Java is one of the most used programming languages at Google and it is extensively deployed across our business where we are among the world leaders in the scale of deployments. Googlers continue to contribute back to the Java community in a dedicated effort toward improving Java, and our team members have long been involved as contributors, leads and reviewers across numerous OpenJDK projects/groups.

As a member of the JCP EC, Google can work directly to ensure the interests of the broad group of Java users and the open source community continue to be put first. We believe Java is important for the open source community and that it has a key place in our industry across client, server and cloud environments. We would like to have an active role in guiding new growth, specs and features that provide a better, faster, more secure, more stable and more user-friendly environment for the developer community.

Google is enthusiastic about the future of Java with the improvements that have been made and the changes that are yet to come. Election to the JCP Executive Committee will allow us to play a bigger part in this journey and to help ensure this growth benefits all, from the smallest and simplest instance, to the largest and most complex deployments.

Google Position Statement (.pdf file)

David Hensley works at Google where he currently runs the Java Platform team. David has worked with Java since its beta release in 1995. He has led a vast array of Java based projects ranging from client side apps, embedded, java malware protection, service / protocol adapters, interop for other languages and massively scalable server applications. David’s leadership in Java development has included holding architect and leadership roles at SeeBeyond (acquired by Sun), Yahoo, Symantec, Google and multiple startups. Additionally David has been personally involved with the JCP in the past, working as an expert group member on both JSR 311 (JAX-RS) and JSR 312 (JBI).

Microsoft deploys over 2.5 million internal JVMs across its businesses and runs Java on behalf of our customers on Azure. For example, the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK powers LinkedIn services and Mojang's Minecraft Java Edition for millions of gamers worldwide. Microsoft has a dedicated Java Engineering Group to contribute directly to OpenJDK. Java also powers critical infrastructure behind Microsoft Azure services, and Bing search.

Microsoft has been investing significantly in Open-Source tools, and services for Java developers. Over the past few years, Visual Studio Code, with over 2 million active Java developers using it, has become the 3rd most used IDE / Code Editor for Java development. Extensions developed by Microsoft and other vendors and independent developers leverage a variety of projects from well-known OSS foundations. Java language support for Visual Studio Code relies on the Eclipse JDT project, which Microsoft actively collaborates with Red Hat.

Our Java investments also expand through specific big data projects (Apache Lucene, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Kafka, et al.) that are critical to Microsoft's core businesses, including Bing’s search index and Azure Big Data services.

Azure customers and Microsoft have cross-platform requirements, and Microsoft wants to continue promoting Java's WORA promise. Azure now offers its own distribution of Linux, and along Windows and ports of many of its software for Mac OS included, Microsoft helps secure a future of cross-platform development. Windows remains the most used operating system by Java developers. Microsoft continues to invest and improve Windows to ensure that the developer experience remains productive, fast, secure, and delightful.

Microsoft Position Statement (.pdf file)

Bruno Borges is Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Java related products and services. Bruno has 24 years of experience and is a distinguished figure in the fields of Product Management, Cloud Developer Experience & Tools, and Developer Relations.

Residing in Vancouver, Canada, Bruno specializes in Java runtimes development and enhancing developer relations for Microsoft, aiming to create the best cloud environment for Java workloads and developers. Notably, he led the public announcement of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Microsoft's own open-source distribution of Java.

Recently, Bruno and the Java Engineering Group at Microsoft also published the Semantic Kernel for Java, a framework for building intelligent Java applications that can leverage Large Language Models with ease.

Prior to Microsoft, Bruno worked for nearly six years at Oracle, influencing developer relations strategy and governance. Recognized as a Top Java Influencer and a Java Champion, Bruno's contributions have significantly impacted the Java community.

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Full-Stack software developer
- Java / JEE since JDK-1.1 and J2EE
- React / React Native for the last 6 years In-depth knowledge of
- Java / Cloud Native development with Quarkus and JakartaEE
- Reactive Programming with Quarkus (Mutiny)
- Red Hat OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes
- and other relevant technologies.

Zoran Sevarac is a Java Champion and he served as the co-lead of the expert group for JSR 381, the Visual Recognition API using machine learning. In recognition of his work on this JSR, alongside Frank Greco, he received the awards for Most Significant JSR (2018) and JCP Member of the Year (2023). As CEO of Deep Netts, he focuses on enabling native AI support in Java. The community edition of the Deep Netts Java library serves as the reference implementation for the Visual Recognition API JSR 381. With his background, Zoran brings valuable expertise in AI and machine learning to the Executive Committee (EC). His primary goals within the EC are to accelerate the development of Java platform features that support AI, leveraging existing tools and projects, and to make it exceptionally easy to integrate AI into Java applications.

Grobmeier Solutions GmbH is a company focused on Java technologies and open-source solutions. It is led by CEO Christian Grobmeier, a certified Data Privacy Officer (TÜV Nord).

Grobmeier Solutions has a strong relationship with the Apache Software Foundation, where it contributes significantly to various projects, including Apache Logging Services (notably Log4j), and supports initiatives within the Apache Incubator and Commons. The company also emphasizes the importance of open-source communities and transparency, with its founder serving as an independent board member of the PRAGMA open-source foundation. Through these contributions, Grobmeier Solutions GmbH aims to advance the adoption and development of open-source technologies in the Java ecosystem.

Christian Grobmeier is the CEO, certified Data Privacy Officer (TÜV Nord), and sole employee at Grobmeier Solutions GmbH. He has extensive experience with Java technologies and a long-standing commitment to the open-source community.

Christian serves as the Vice President of Data Privacy at the Apache Software Foundation and is a Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Logging Services. He is also an active speaker at Java User Groups. He provides training on Java technologies such as OCA preparation and frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.

Christian is a published author. He is currently writing a book on Java Logging for beginners, which Manning will publish. His previous works include publications on the now-deprecated Apache Forrest technology and The Zen Programmer. He shares his insights on Java and open source on his blog at https://grobmeier.solutions and on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@grobmeier.

Rahman Position Statement (.pdf file)

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, Mr. Rahman is deeply involved in community outreach and education. He is the founder and current moderator of the Java User Group in Bangladesh, where he has organized educational meetups and conferences since 2013.

Mr. Rahman has been an active speaker at various international conferences and Java user groups in the past few years. His talks have often focused on specialized topics such as concurrency and virtual threads. In addition to his community work, Mr. Rahman also serves as an editor for Java Queue at InfoQ and Foojay.io. Notably, he has authored five books on the Java programming language in Bengali, three of which have become best sellers in Bangladesh.

He is currently writing a new book with O'Reilly titled "Modern Concurrency in Java."

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-concurrency-in/9781098165406/

Although Miro is primarily focused on the Java language, he also actively helps engineers develop JVM-based distributed projects in other platform languages ??such as Scala or Kotlin. He shares experiences with the community through feedback not only JVM-based projects. Miro participates in many discussions across the Java environment that contribute to the future of the ecosystem. Assists and supports JUGs communities through presentations or engagement.