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The nominations for the 2020 EC Election have closed. Thank you for all the nominations!
View this year's nominees' profiles and qualification statements.
Join us on Thursday, October 29 for the Meet the JCP EC Candidates Zoom webinar.
Hear from the EC candidates why they are running for a seat on the JCP EC and ask questions.
Registration is required to attend. Make sure to register ahead of time.
Instructions on how to cast vote will be sent to all eligible JCP Members on November 3.
The August EC Meeting summary and materials have been posted.
The winners of the 2020 JCP Annual Awards were
announced at the JCP Community Virtual Party & Awards Ceremony! Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
We hosted our annual JCP Community Virtual Party & Awards Ceremony on September 18 - online this year. It was great seeing
so many familiar faces at the party - thank you to all of you who had joined us for a fun afternoon!
Pictures from the event have been posted to the JCP Party 2020 album on Flickr.
Java in Education is an initiative to promote Java in the local educational institutions.
See the message from Heather VanCura, Director and Chairperson of the JCP Program.
The JCP EC Elections have completed on 18 November 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.
The results are now available.
Congratulations to the newly elected and re-elected JCP EC Members and thank you to all the nominees and JCP Members for participating in the elections!
The 2019 JCP annual awards winners were announced at the JCP annual community party during Oracle Code One.
Congratulations to both winners and nominees!
We are celebrating the 20 years of the JCP with the community.
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JSR Updates
New JSRs
JSR 391, Java SE 16
Early Draft Reviews
JSR 302, Safety Critical Java Technology
Public Reviews
JSR 381, Visual Recognition Specification
Final Releases
JSR 371, Model-View-Controller (MVC 1.0) Specification
JSR 385, Units of Measurement API 2.0
JSR 386, Java SE 12
JSR 388, Java SE 13
JSR 389, Java SE 14
JSR 390, Java SE 15
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Maintenance Reviews
JSR 269, Pluggable Annotation Processing API
Maintenance Releases
JSR 56, Java Network Launching Protocol and API
JSR 67, Java APIs for XML Messaging
JSR 199, Java Compiler API
JSR 221, JDBC
JSR 222, Java Architecture for XML Binding
JSR 224, Java API for XML-Based Web Services
JSR 269 Pluggable Annotation Processing
JSR 318, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 (Interceptors 1.2)
JSR 337, Java SE 8 Release Contents
JSR 338, Java Persistence 2.2
JSR 354, Money and Currency API
JSR 364, Broadening JCP Membership
JSR 384, Java SE 11
JSR 387, Streamline the JCP Program
JSR 907, Java Transaction API
JSR 919, JavaMail
JSR 925, JavaBeans Activation Framework
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JSR 364, Broadening JCP Membership, has posted a Maintenance Release (2017).
JSR 355, JCP Executive Committee Merge, completed its work and went final in 2012.
JSR 348, Towards a new version of the JCP, posed a Final Release in 2011.
There is a transparency sub-project introduced as part of the Adopt-a-JSR program. We need JUGs or individuals to do transparency checks or audits on JSRs.
The latest EC meeting summaries have been posted.
Following the upgrade to the JCP 2.8 Program, the Program Office has made available the following materials for Spec Leads on the Multimedia page of jcp.org:
- Adopt-a-JSR for Spec Leads (February 2013 call)
- JCP 2.9 and Transparency (November 2012 call)
- Meet the Candidates (October 2012 call)
- Expert Group Nominations (June 2012 call)
- Leveraging the JCP Community (February 2012 call)
- Transparency (December 2011 call)
- JCP 2.8 Overview (October 2011 call)
The Java Community Process (JCP) program has seen a dramatic rise in worldwide participation. Read more here...
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Spec Lead Guide
JSR 390 Java SE 15 Final Release
