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Q & A WITH WERNER KEIL
  • Why do you want a seat on the EC?

    During my more than 3 years as JSR SpecLead and member of other JSRs, as well as standard organizations like Eclipse I met a lot of people eager to participate in standard bodies contributing innovation and great ideas. Many of them have joined those groups. Thus I would be happy to help the JCP with this catalyst ability on a broader scope.
  • What changes would you like to make happen during your three-year tenure on the EC (if elected)?

    I would be proud and happy to fuel the release train of the very first truly Open Source based Java standards ahead of us. Java 7 and beyond as well as Java EE 6. Also a reasonable extent of interoperability of standards and licenses with each other is an important goal.
  • The majority of EC members seem to represent big corporations. How can we ensure that the interests of the broader development community are represented?

    By giving individual candidates like myself a chance, too. Which is a strong reason for my candidacy.
  • How should the JCP adapt to the Open Source movement?

    Quite a couple of Sun fellows or members recently headed towards these Clouds. Others were highly influential in forming or supporting key stakeholders of this movement. And a partnership with an Open Social vendor also indicates this direction.

    While I approve the open and easy approach for many people out there, I have been among the few people in the industry urging to use Radar if you fly in a Cloud! E.g. that Open Social will never work well without OpenID or similar standards for security and online trust. Renegade vendors and online criminals pretending to be free hosts or social network have not only infiltrated those communities, they also hit the JCP among their spam and malware attacks recently.
    This example and the general problem of still insecure and unprotected mass communication and mash ups presents a chance for the JCP to help shape these trends and toys into real Enterprise standards.
  • If you are elected on the JCP EC which will be your top priorities over your term:
    • energize your company's participation in the community: submit new JSRs, actively participate in EGs, motivate spec leads to become mentors ...
    • evangelize the importance of standards
    • improve the process
    • other


    Following conversations with people interested in joining the JCP or also those who feel some things could be improved, I would like to help those who are sometimes overwhelmed by a lot of paperwork or licenses to not make this a barrier for many to join such a movement.

    The modularization of Java in some areas like JSR-316 (Java EE 6) and its RI GlassFish 3 seems like a very good step towards a modularization of Java in areas where it might otherwise risk becoming too big or complex. While OSGi and other JSRs have not always shared minds, the fact it is now largely used in Java EE points into a direction, other parts of Java could also profit from.
  • What role do you think standards and standards development will have in the future (if any)?

    I believe, open standards will play an even bigger role in coming years and IT movements both new and refurbished under new names.
    During the huge economic crisis prior to WW2 many countries saw their money become completely invalidated. So bad, companies and councils often started to print their own private currencies. After centuries of monetary consolidation. I strongly hope the crisis we are facing today won't be as bad, but some analogies cannot be overlooked. While this was not the only reason for banks and financial businesses running out of it, each of those has invested vast resources into just creating the same code for money or investment banking over and over again. Just like those companies once did in the "real" world. Creating useful and practical Java standards for problems like this would benefit not just the financial sector, but a vast majority of the Java Community.