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JSR #182
JPay - Payment API for the Java^TM Platform
JSR Review Ballot
Ballot duration: 2002-04-02 to: 2002-04-15

These are the final results of the JSR Review Ballot for JSR #182. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

Votes

SE/EE

Apache Software Foundation

Apple Computer, Inc.

BEA Systems

Borland Software Corporation

Caldera Systems

Cisco Systems

Compaq Computer Corporation

Fujitsu Limited

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Lea, Doug

Macromedia, Inc.

Nokia Networks

Oracle

Progress Software

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Yes
No
Abstain
Not voted

View Vote Log

SE/EE

On 2002-04-15 Borland Software Corporation voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Apache Software Foundation voted No with the following comment:
It's a terrible precedent for JSR proposals to come with vital information obscured by passwords and unavailable to EC members.  It may not be illegal per the process, but that's only because it's up to the EC to establish norms for things like this.  We believe the norm should be that partial proposals are denied.
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On 2002-04-15 Fujitsu Limited voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Macromedia, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Apple Computer, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Progress Software voted Yes with the following comment:
IONA voted 'Yes' to this JSR, following the actions placed on the Expert Group to address the issues raised regarding the documents referenced in the specification.
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On 2002-04-15 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Lea, Doug voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-15 Nokia Networks voted Abstain with the following comment:
The PayCircle and Parlay sets of specifications seem to be essential for this JSR. However, the policy should be that all the referred material are directly available without passwords. Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case with this specific JSR. In addition to this, Nokia's view is that the payment arena is at the moment in such an extent obscure, that we are not able to take a definitive stand about the correct direction with respect to this JSR. Thus we choose to vote 'abstain'.
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On 2002-04-15 IBM voted Yes with the following comment:
IBM is concerned that a full review of this proposal is inhibited by a lack of authorised access to two of the referenced documents (namely PayCircle Payment Web Service specification and Paylay's Java Realization Workgroup).  Since the JSR describes the proposed API in terms of the information contained in these documents, it is not possible to review the JSR adequately without other access to that information.

IBM also had two other concerns about the scope of the JSR and have received assurance from the proposer that the expert group will address both of these points:
- The JSR itself isn't clear exactly where the API sits -- the most likely three possibilities being payer/payee,  payee/payment service or payer/payment service.  
- The supported payment schemes (credit, micropayment, utility billing, stored-value card, cheque, ...), and hence the scope of the JSR, is also not clear.  It looks like JSR covers micropayments and utility billing, but there is little or no mention of support for other types.  The suggestion of using the javax.payment package name implies a wide scope.
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On 2002-04-12 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-11 Compaq Computer Corporation voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-10 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-10 Caldera Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-04-08 Cisco Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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