December	2006

Contents

Recent News

Upcoming Events

JCP Executive Committee (EC) Elections Results

PMO winter Break & Holiday Greeting

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.

• Java EE 5 Server Support: A Look into "A Mixed Bag" (SearchWebServices.com)
• Java SE 6's New Scripting and Compiling Goodies (internet.com)
• Partners Ready to Dig into Open-Source Java (CRN)
• Sun Opens Java - What open-source means for the JCP (Artima)
• JSR 306 Gets Noticed, Draws Valuable Feedback , Improving the JCP (JDJ)
• Sun Virtual Reality briefing on Java forks, compatibility, Microsoft, Linux (InfoQ)

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

• Save the date for the 2007 JavaOne Conference, Call for papers closes today!
  This is your chance to become one of next year's Rock Star speakers. Go to http://www.cplan.com/sun/javaone07/cfp to submit your session abstract. The Call for Papers deadline is 15 December.
  Plan now to learn the latest developments in Java technology by attending the 2007 JavaOne conference, 8-11 May in San Francisco. More information:
  http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf

Welcome To The Newly and Re-elected Members To The JCP Program ECs!  The 2006 JCP EC Elections concluded on 13 November. The open elections declared the following members elected to the executive committees: On the Standard/Enterprise Edition (SE/EE) EC, Doug Lea. On the Micro
Edition (ME) EC, Jean-Marie Dautelle and Ericsson. Earlier in the elections process the ratification ballot confirmed six EC members to the JCP ECs: HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Oracle to the SE/EE EC. And BenQ, Motorola, Siemens, Vodafone on the ME EC.  For a complete report of the 2006 JCP EC Elections check out PricewaterhouseCoopers site:
http://www.jcpelection2006.org

Learn more about these EC members here: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/ec2006


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The PMO will be on holiday from 25 December -  1 January. This means no 2 week ballots can start on 12, 19 or 26 December. Also, no Community Review or Early Draft Review ballot can start on 19 or 26 December and no Maintenance Review can end between 25 December 2006 and 1 January 2007.

Happy Holidays from the PMO: http://jcp.org/en/press/pmo/holidays


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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 287, Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API 2.0 for Java ME, is now
  available for Early Draft Review; this review closes on 18 January.
• JSR 284, Resource Consumption Management API, is now available for
  Public Review; this review closes on 18 December.
• JSR 278, Resource Management API for Java ME, is now available for
  Public Review; this review closes on 8 January.
• JSR 239, Java Binding for the OpenGL® ES API, is now available for
  Maintenance Review; this review closes This review closes on 18 December.
• The Expert Group for JSR 270, Java SE 6 Release Contents, has completed its work and published the Final Release of the specification.
  The Final Release of the specification is available from the Java Community Process Web site at:  http://jcp.org/en/jsr/stage?listBy=final and also from the JSR 270 page.
• Additional JSRs that went final this week as component JSRs of JSR 270:  JSR 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, JSR 199, Java Compiler API, JSR 269,  Pluggable Annotation Processing API, JSR 268, Java Smart Card I/O API, JSR 202, Java Class File Specification, JSR 221, JDBC API Specification.