Minutes for the LJC/JCP Committee Meeting on 6th December
Hi all,
Minutes for Dec 6th, as always, questions, comments etc are welcome!
Attendees
- Ben Evans
- Martijn Verburg
- Trisha Gee
- Michael Barker
- Somay Nakhal
- Richard Warburton
Minutes
Carried over from last meeting
- JSR-331 – BE to send to SE/EE list saying we’re going to vote no and here’s why. Before he does, check with Werner Kiel.
- We need to update our voting record on Java.net (BE/MB)
- Accept 351 invitation for webinar (BE)
- JCP.next.next solicit comments before the vote (BE to ask Patrick)
From this meeting
- Set up a shared calendar for early JSR reviews and dissemination of our reviews (TG)
- Get a volunteer to introduce Raoul-Gabriel Urma to the right people in the OpenJDK or his Relationships in Java prototype (MB)
- BE reported that the proposed Currency JSR was still dormant.
- MB reported that the tuples JEP this was very long term work
- JSR 335: Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language – Early Draft Review – (RW to lead the Adopt a JSR for this one)
- JSR 344: JavaServer Faces 2.2 – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
- JSR 339: Java API for RESTful Web Services – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
- JSR 346: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1 – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
- JSR 342: Java EE 7 – (BE to investigate EG composition further)
- Jigsaw: – Committee to investigate progress of JEP
- Adopt a JSR materials for JUGs:
1- The overview presentation. 5 minutes on what the JSR is about and what it means for the regular developer
2- Technical deep dive – 10-60 minutes on how to use the result of the JSR, implementation details, best practices… All a developer needs to get from “Haven’t heard about” to “Almost Guru” (MV/JG) - MB to lead OpenJDK Adoption and set up a monthly regular session – find a venue via BC
- MV to investigate with Oracle about access to statistical analysis tools.
- Committee had a discussion on licensing in preparation of JCP.next.next, conclusion was that until the lawsuit is settled, we have to wait.
- MV to ask JUG leaders list to assist with further JSRs
Cheers,
Martijn (On behalf of the LJC JCP Committee)
December in the LJC « London Java Community
11/01/2012 @ 12:06 pm
[…] December saw a good uptake in people joining the ‘Adopt a JSR’ program. The LJC is now actively working on 6-7 JSRs and 4 other Java User Groups around the globe have also joined in the program. As the program is only 2 months old, this is really encouraging news for the Java platform and community! The LJC JCP committee also had its monthly meeting of which you can find the minutes at http://londonjavacommunity.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/minutes-for-the-ljcjcp-committee-meeting-on-6th-… […]