January	2007

Contents

Recent News

Upcoming Events

Duke's choice Awards

JCP Program Star Spec Leads

JCP Conversations: Two New Videos

New JCP Program Members

Noteworthy JSRs

Contact Information

Find out more about the latest happenings and announcements in the JCP program, by visiting the front page of jcp.org. Some recent JCP-related news items are listed below.

• JSR Watch: The 2006 JCP EC Elections Are Over (JDJ)
• Java Year-ender(onjava.com)
• Java IDEs make nice: Eclipse joins JCP:(Linuxwatch)
• Java EE 5 faces the SOA test, part 3:(TechTarget)
• JSR 306 audio interview with Artima (Artima)
• Swing Framework Spec Lead Interview (Artima)
• HP joins OSS/J Program (Lightreading)
• Unihub China's Twins Certified OSS/J Compliant
• Weblog-C Enrique Ortiz on Java ME milestones

It's been a busy few months of industry conferences for the JCP program
office.  Check out the 2007 Calendar for other upcoming events.

• JCP EC Face to Face meeting in Santa Clara, 27-28 February
• The JCP will present a session this year at EclipseCon 5-8 March in Santa Clara
• QCon Conference 14-16 March London, UK
• TheServerSide Java Symposium 21-23 March, Las Vegas, Nevada
• ApacheCon Europe 1-4 May Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2007 JavaOne conference, 8-11 May in San Francisco Conference Registration is LIVE! Register today for the JavaOne conference and Save $200! The program is new and expanded.http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf

The Call for Submissions to the fifth annual Duke's Choice Awards, which celebrate extreme innovation in the world of Java technology is now open. Duke's Choice award selection is based on the innovation and creativity of the Java technology-based applications and services, including: web applications and tools, mobile applications and services, games and card-based applications. Winners will receive a statuette of 'Duke,' the Java technology mascot and be recognized for their achievement at the at the 2007 JavaOne conference. This year, one of the Duke's Choice award winners will once again be chosen from the many applications featured on java.com. Full details and the submission form for the Duke's Choice awards are available at:
http://java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp
Deadline for submissions is March 15.


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• Meet the newest Spec Lead to join the ranks of Star Spec Lead, Shai Gotlib


• You can find out from some of the Star Spec Leads how they go about the tasks of starting a JSR, forming an Expert Group and managing and Expert Group in this two part tutorial

Check out the latest additions to our JCP conversations, recorded during the last in person meeting of the Executive Committees in Boston last December:

• A video interview with Danny Coward, SE/EE EC member .mov format


• A video interview with Jean-Marie Dautelle, ME EC member .mov format

The JCP program membership continued an upward trend through the close of 2006, and members continue to join in the new year. Read about some of the latest new members here.

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Did you know that the PMO offers Public Relations support to spec leads? The JCP conducts outreach to the press with JSR news on an ongoing bi-weekly basis. If would like to highlight your JSR, please contact Corina Ulescu at corina@jcp.org.

• JSR 310, Date and Time API, has been submitted for review. The review for this JSR closes on 12 February. This JSR will provide a new and improved date and time API for Java.
• JSR 309, edia Server Control API, has been submitted for review. The review for this JSR closes on 5 February . This Specification is a protocol agnostic API for Media Server Control. It provides a portable interface to create media rich applications with IVR, Conferencing, Speech Recognition, and similar features.
• JSR 289, JSR 289, SIP Servlet 1.1, is now available for Early Draft Review. This review closes on 16 March..
• JSR 271, Mobile Information Device Profile 3, is now available for Early Draft Review. This review closes on 5 February.
• JSR 264, Order Management API, has published a Proposed Final Draft Specification.
• JSR 280, XML API for Java ME, has published a Proposed Final Draft Specification.
• JSR 173, Streaming API for XML, is now available for Maintenance Review. This review closes on 26 February.
• JSR 291, Dynamics Component Support for Java SE, has completed Public Review and passed the ballot. The specification may be downloaded here and comments should be sent to jsr-291-comments@jcp.org. The JSR is being run with an Expert Group mailing list to which anyone may subscribe. The archives are viewable to anyone without needing to subscribe.
• The Expert Group for JSR 248, Mobile Service Architecture, has completed its work and published the Final Release of the specification.