The Java Community Process (JCP) program celebrates success. Members of the community nominate worthy participants, Spec Leads, and Java Specification Requests (JSRs) in order to cheer on the hard work and creativity that produces ground-breaking results for the community and industry in the Java Standard Edition (SE), Java Enterprise Edition (EE), or Java Micro Edition (ME) platforms.

The community gets together every year at the JavaOne conference to applaud in person the winners the JCP Annual Awards. This year we have four award categories: JCP Member/Participant of the Year, Outstanding Spec Lead, Most Significant JSR and Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant. This year's unveiling will occur Monday evening, September 29, at the Annual JCP Community Party held in San Francisco at the Hilton Hotel.

With great appreciation, now for the 12th year, the community recognizes the award nominees, listed below, with their nomination justifications.

• Bruno Souza
  
  His value added to the participation in the EC discussions as well as his leadership of the SouJava JUG has brought more attention to other JUGs and inspired their increased participation.

• Heather VanCura * Winner *
  
  Heather has taken a strong leadership role in the Adopt-a-JSR programme and has played a key role in organising and running Adoption sessions, workshops, webinars all around the world. Heather has also been tireless in bringing new Java User Groups into the programme. This work has played a significant role in making the JCP a well known entity that is seen to have relevance for developers. Also, for her Spec Lead role in JSR 364, that has the potential to significantly increase the participation of individual members of the Java development community in the work of the JCP.

• Richard Warburton
  
  Richard has put a huge amount of effort into the JCP. I have participated in the LJC Hack Days and have been very impressed with his welcoming encouragement, which has meant lots more people are now involved. This is great for Java and we need more like this! Richard has a great understanding of all things Java, and is good at explaining issues to new contributors, which really helps to encourage their participation.
  
  

• Stephen Colebourne (JSR 310)
  
  Stephen was instrumental in bringing the Date & Time feature (JSR 310) to life in Java 8. Leading JSR 310 was a substantial effort - both personally and professionally - on Stephen's part. As Stephen has said, fixing Date & Time was primarily a matter of getting it "right", not fixing it "now".

• Michael Lagally (JSR 360) * Winner *
  
  For bringing the first Java ME/CLDC update to Java in nearly 7 years!

• Anatole Tresch (JSR 354)
  
  Anatole has thrown himself into the Java Standards space as the Spec Lead for the Money and Currency JSR, the (soon to be submitted) Configuration JSR and as an active participant in several other JSRs. Anatole has shown great tenacity, patience and willingness to collaborate with stakeholders even when his JSRs come under strong/late change requests from outside parties!
  
  

• JSR 310, Date & Time API
  
  This JSR provides a long awaited/highly anticipated, new and improved date and time API for Java.

• JSR 360, Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 8 * Winner *
  
  This JSR is a significant upgrade to Java ME after a very long quiet period, and is a major step toward convergence. Java ME 8 incorporates a large set of updated and new features, including: Java language and API alignment with Java SE 8, support for modern web protocols, a comprehensive application model, advanced security features and standard APIs for power management and interaction with a broad set of standard peripherals.

• JSR 363, Units of Measurement API
  
  Aside from being one of the only non process-related (technical) JSR filed in the last 18 months, JSR 363 is the first JSR supporting both Java ME and SE with the same API. The EC was merged some while ago, but JSRs before were still designed for either Java ME or SE/EE. Even the category says Java SE, Java EE or Java ME, and JSR 363 works across all 3 of them.

  Several programming languages like C++, F# or Python offer type-safe semantic Units of Measurement support. Providing similar support to the Java Platform can help it to be competitive in the Internet of Things.

  By remaining closest to the "Write once Run Anywhere" promise Java once started with. And open to a future improved type system as well as modularity and optionality, JSR 363 is only the second JSR to use fine grained package level optionality after 361 (MEEP 8) .
  
  

• JUG Chennai
  
  JUG Chennai has been active adopting several JSRs from the Final 331 (Constraint Programming) to recent active JSRs like 354 (Money and Currency) or 363 (Units of Measurements) as well as JSRs under the Java EE 7 umbrella. They've also been demonstrating new features of Java EE 7, JavaFX or Java 8 on a regular basis and spread the word about Java at local JavaOne India conferences in Hyderabad.

  And for the last 4 years hosted its own Java conference Chennai Java Summit bringing several international Java experts and Java Champions to Chennai each year.

• iJUG/DOAG
  
  The Association of German JUGs have done great work over the last year, in particular hosting an all day Adopt-a-JSR bonanza (where they kindly offered free tickets to Adopt-a-JSR participants) at their new Javaland conference! Much good came out of these sessions, in particular helping shape the Money and Currency JSR.

• Otávio Gonçalves de Santana * Winner *
  
  Otavio, as part of SouJava, has significantly supported JSR 354 in changing its code base from Java 7 to Java 8. Otavio basically spent days of work just as a free contribution to our JSR with outstanding commitment and energy. Finally though Otavio worked only for a short time, he has definitively become one of the key contributors to JSR 354.

  Otavio is also a strong participant on OpenJDK, and came to join the Adotp-a-JSR program to help JSRs in general to be prepared to be included in OpenJDK. Having followed the process of JSR-310 and the issues around it, Otavio has decided that JSRs would be better off adapting to OpenJDK from the start. Once Otavio joined the JCP, he really enjoyed participating, and ended up doing several tasks in JSR 354 and JSR 363.

• Martijn Verburg
  
  Martijn has put a huge amount of effort into the Adopt-a-JSR projects. I have participated in LJC Hack Days and have been very impressed with the welcoming encouragement, which has meant lots more people are now involved. This is great for Java and we need more like this! Martijn is very good at keeping track of the many JSRs he contributes to, and also the state / progress of other people working on them.
  
  

Description of the JCP Award Categories JCP Member/Participant of the Year - This award recognizes the corporate or individual member (either Member or Participant) who has made the most significant positive impact on the community in the past year. Leadership, investment in the community, and innovation are some of the qualities that EC Members look for in voting for this award.   Outstanding Spec Lead - The role of Spec Lead is not an easy one, and the person who takes that responsibility must be, among other things, technically savvy, able to build consensus in spite of diverse corporate goals, and focused on efficiency and execution. This award recognizes the person who has brought together these qualities the best in the past year, in leading a JSR for the Java community (Java SE, Java EE or Java ME).   Most Significant JSR - Specification development is key to the success of the JCP program and helps ensure we remain a fresh and vibrant community. This award recognizes the Spec Lead and Expert Group that have contributed (either in progress or final) the most significant JSR for the Java community (Java SE, Java EE or Java ME) in the past year.   Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant - This award recognizes the Java User Group (JUG) that has made the most exemplary contribution through the Adopt-a-JSR program in the past year. The London Java Community and SouJava initiated, and are thereby implicitly recognized, in this effort for JUGs around the world to become more involved in the work of JSRs. Innovation, community engagement and technical impact are some of the characteristics that EC Members look for in voting for this award.