These are the final results of the JSR Review Ballot for JSR #308. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

JSR308

StageJSR Review Ballot

Ballot durationOct 17, 2006 to Oct 30, 2006

Votes

SE/EE

Apache Software Foundation

BEA Systems

Borland Software Corporation

Fujitsu Limited

Google Inc.

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Intel Corp.

Lea, Doug

Nortel

Oracle

Red Hat

SAP SE

SAS Institute Inc.

Suleiman, Hani

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Vote Log

SE/EE

On 2006-10-17 Suleiman, Hani voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-18 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-18 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
This note confirms our understanding that the scope of the JSR includes providing for annotations on loops and blocks if the Expert Group decides to include that after evaluation. The JSR itself should be updated to make it clear this is in the scope. Details: The JSR contains an URL pointing to "A longer and more technically detailed version of this JSR".  That version says "The Expert Group will consider whether the proposal should extend annotations in few other ways." ... "Annotations on blocks or loops, which are not currently permitted by Java, could be useful for properties such as atomicity/concurrency."  
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On 2006-10-27 Nortel voted Yes with the following comment:
Completely aligned with the comments by INtel, it would have been extremely usefull to extend the annotations
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On 2006-10-28 Lea, Doug voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-29 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 IBM voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 SAP SE voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2006-10-30 Google Inc. voted Yes with the following comment:
This note confirms our understanding that Section 2.1 should be less specific. It should state the problem, which is that current restrictions on the placement of annotations limit their utility for certain applications such as program verification. Section 2.1 should outline the proposed solution: that annotations should be permitted to appear in more places, and perhaps local variable annotations should be allowed in the class file. (We say "perhaps" because the JSR-175 EG recognized that there are difficulties associated with this.) The specific syntax and semantics should be left up to the expert group. The syntax and semantics currently shown in Section 2 (and in Michael Ernst's paper) belongs in Section 3, where it can serve as a key contribution without constraining the expert group.

With this understanding, Google casts an enthusiastic yes vote, and looks forward to serving on the Expert Group.
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On 2006-10-30 Apache Software Foundation voted Yes with no comment.
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