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April 2008
Contents

From the PMO


  • The JCP PMO and the Executive Committees announced on Monday, April 28 the nominations for the 2008 JCP Program Awards. Read here who this year's nominees are. Congratulations to all!
  • Check the JCP activities at the 2008 JavaOne Conference here. Most of them will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel San Francisco including the JSR Expert Group meetings for which the PMO has reserved the Fremont Room from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, May 5-9, 2008. Reservations are on first come, first served basis, to make yours email Liz Kiener at liz@jcp.org.
  • A new Star Spec Leads program will be launched at the 2008 JavaOne Conference. The new program takes the elements of the original Spec Leads incentives program including the rewards and links them to a better defined set of criteria.
  • The Java Community Process Survey is now available. We would like to hear from you with your opinions, take a few moments to complete it.


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Recent News

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.


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Events

**April Events**


**Upcoming Events**

CommunityOne
May 5, 2008, San Francisco, California
The Moscone Center

CommunityOne is your opportunity to learn from experts representing a wide range of open source projects in one jam-packed day. CommunityOne attendees will enjoy free access to the JavaOne Pavilion and General Sessions on Tuesday, May 6.


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2008 JavaOne Conference

May 6-9, 2008, San Francisco, California
Moscone Center

If you haven't registered yet for the 2008 JavaOne Conference do it before May 5 to save $100.
Consult the on-line Content Catalog to build your personal JavaOne schedule including JSR related sessions, birds-of-a-feather, hands-on labs by searching tracks with the keyword "JSR". Plan to stop by the JCP pod 114 at the JavaOne show pavilion where JCP PMO staff will be on hand to answer your questions about JCP at JavaOne and more.

Mark in your conference planner BOF #5578, Who Needs Standards in an Open Source World? and Panel Session #5577,Mobile Service Architecture: Spelling Out the Link Between JSR features and JSR Draft Reviews -- both of them are brought to you by the JCP.

Noteworthy JSRs

If you want to know more about a JSR of your interest, please take a look at the Community Update Pages accessible from all JSR detail pages. Your comments are much appreciated by Spec Leads and can influence the work of the Expert Groups.


At JavaOne:

Some of the JSRs nominated for the 2008 JCP Program Annual Awards are also featured in technical sessions, panels, labs and BOFs at JavaOne including milestone JSR 316, Java EE 6 (BOF-4984).
Other milestone JSRs spotlighted at JavaOne are JSRs 248 and 249 (TS-5140,PAN-5577and JSR270, Java SE 6 (TS-4864).
There are more than 40 JSR based sessions at JavaOne, check the on-line Content Catalog for more.

April Advancers
  • JSR 82, Java APIs for Bluetooth is now in Maintenance Review 3.
  • JSR 113, Java Speech API 2.0 entered Final Approval Ballot stage.
  • JSR 235, Service Data Objects recently wrapped up Early Draft Review.
  • JSR 249, Mobile Service Architecture 2 published its early draft which will be under review until May 29.
  • JSR 262, Web Services Connector for Java Management Extensions (JMX) Agents, moved to Public Review which runs until May 13, 2008.
  • JSR 325, IMS Communication Enablers (ICE), was newly submitted to the JCP and is currently under review which ends on May 5 with the Review Ballot.
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If you are planning to blog about the JCP at JavaOne ...



We are inviting you to send us the links to your JavaOne JCP related blog entries, we will feature them in JavaOne related coverage on jcp.org. (Please let us know by sending email to pmo@jcp.org)

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Membership Updates



New individual members signed the JSPA in April and the membership gap between Europe and North America continued to grow smaller with the addition of companies such as Glu Mobile, UK. Welcome on board to all!

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Invitation to contribute content

The Spec Leads who would like to contribute content to articles in developer publications (print and/or on-line) please contact the JCP PMO. The JCP receives leads from publications on a daily basis and is inviting you to take advantage of the opportunity to share your work under the JCP with broader audiences via our program of contributed articles.
To make sure you are not missing submission deadlines for upcoming articles to which you can contribute content or by line please make sure you make your interest known at the earliest convenience at corina@jcp.org

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PMO Contact Information

Here is how to contact the Program Office:

Expert Group (EG) Coordination: If you have an EG kick-off meeting and would like to get an overview of the JSR 2.6 program please contact the JSR Program Manager, Liz Kiener at: Liz@jcp.org or +1 510 550 4353. Liz is also available to facilitate face to face meetings for your EG or help two or more EGs of related or dependent JSRs to meet.

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/proposal: to submit proposals for new JSRs.

spec-submit@jcp.org: to send in your draft and/or final specification documents and related materials (as .pdf or Zip archive, please. Other formats will not be posted).

admin@jcp.org: to submit Expert Group lists, in case you misplaced your password, requests for your Member access information, updates to your contact information.

pmo@jcp.org: to reach the PMO for general inquiries.

corina@jcp.org: to submit news items for Press & Analysts, and/or explore further opportunities to talk to press and analysts about your contribution to Java standards development through the JCP program.
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