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	Summer	2009

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From the PMO

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.

The minutes and materials of the April, May and July JCP EC meetings are now available here: http://jcp.org/en/resources/EC_summaries.
Transparency Case Study: Development. You can read the latest JSR case study series on developing a JSR transparently here: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/transparency4
The JCP program office presented the 2009 JCP Program Annual Awards at the JCP program community party. The award winners can be found here, along with a link to the full list of nominees: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/2009JCPawardwinnersPR
Congratulations to the 2009 Star Spec Leads, recognizing top Spec Lead performance and rewarding exceptional service to the community. This year's Star Spec Leads are Ed Burns (Sun Microsystems), Mike Milikich (former Motorola) and David Nuescheler (Day Software). Read more about the newest Stars here: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/star2
The JCP program also particiapted at the 2009 JavaOne Conference in June. You can read a summary and view pictures of JCP program related activities here: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/JavaOne_wrapup_2009
There are several Java and JSR related technical sessions being presented next week at Oracle Open World; for more information see: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/sun_oow.html

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Upcoming Events

**Upcoming Events**

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EC Elections

October marks the official start of the 2009 EC elections. The nomination phase is open now. Every JCP member can nominate themselves during this phase of the election, which lasts two weeks, closing in less than 7 days, on next Thursday, 14 October. To nominate go to: https://eballot.votenet.com/jcp

Due to changes introduced by JCP version 2.7 (see above), this year there will be only one voting period for both the ratified and elected seats. There are 12 seats open (out of 32). The ballot will run 20 October – 2 November. Primary contacts will receive voting instructions via email. More information about the EC elections is here: http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections.

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New Site

As you may have noticed, the JCP program office recently completed a major revision to the jcp.org web site. One of the changes was to introduce public discussion boards open to any registered user of jcp.org for each JSR. The forums are tied to mail aliases in the format of jsr-x-public@jcp.org; note that this board/alias replaces the jcp-comments aliases. You can find links to the discussion boards on each JSR page in the format of http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=x (x is the JSR number). There are also a variety of discussion boards for general topics here: http://wiki.jcp.org/boards/index.php

For subscribers of the jcp-interest mailing list, please note that announcements about the progress of JSRs and general JCP announcements will now be posted to the jcp-announcements board. The jcp-interest alias will no longer be used for such announcements. If you have not viewed the jcp-announcements board yet, please do so. It is located here: http://wiki.jcp.org/boards/index.php?b=1

All JCP program members should be registered users of jcp.org; for more detailed information and an introduction on using the features of the new jcp.org site see: http://jcp.org/en/introduction/intro

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JCP version 2.7

The program office and the EC announced the maintenance release of JSR 215, JCP program version 2.7, in June. Read about the updates here: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/JCP2_7_transparent For an overview of how JCP 2.7 changes will effect Spec Leads see: http://jcp.org/en/resources/2.7

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News for Spec Leads

There will be a WebEx meeting for Spec Leads on Wednesday 21 October at 8 am pacific time. We will discuss some of the changes and requirements introduced with JCP version 2.7, as well as any other topics of interest to Spec Leads at this meeting. Details for the meeting will be sent via email, but if you would like to attend, send email to the PMO.

We have an opportunity to promote your JSR via the European Editor-in-Chief for the journal Software Practice and Experience. Please contact the PMO for details.

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JSRs In The Spotlight

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.

Submitted and approved by the SE/EE EC:

JSR 331, Constraint Programming API

Completed Early Draft Review:

JSR 327, Dynamic Contents Delivery Service API for Java ME
JSR 329, Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2 Specification

Proposed Final Drafts submitted and available for review:

JSR 299, Web Beans
JSR 301, Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces
JSR 325, IMS Communication Enablers (ICE)
JSR 330, Dependency Injection for Java
JSR 317, JavaTM Persistence 2.0
JSR 316, Java EE 6

Final Releases:

JSR 314, JavaServer Faces 2.0
JSR 283, Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0

Maintenance activity:

JSR 109, Implementing Enterprise Web Services
JSR 224, Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0
JSR 211, Content Handler API
JSR 257, Contactless Communication API

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Membership Update

Membership in the JCP program is renewed annually by the JCP program office. It is important that the JCP program have your current contact information in order to process your renewal (whether a corporate, individual, academic, government or non-profit membership). If we are not able to contact you, your membership may be suspended and canceled after a period of 6 months. Please update and/or verify your contact information here: http://jcp.org/en/user/my.

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PMO Contact Information

Here is how to contact the Program Office:

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 questions, in case you misplaced your password, requests for your Member access information, updates to your contact information (note that most of these items can now be updated on the ?My Profile? page: http://jcp.org/en/user/my).

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

http://blogs.sun.com/jcp: to follow latest announcements on the JCP program.

JCP Announcement Forum

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Best Regards, Heather VanCura on behalf of the JCP PMO

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JCP Program Newsletter Summer 2009