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JCP enters general elections phase


By Alex Handy
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November 7, 2008 —  The presidential election may be over, but the Java Community Process' executive committee elections are just entering their second phase. With the initial ratification voting completed, the general election of members began on Nov. 4. The nominees include previous Java Specification Request (JSR) leaders as well as newcomers.

Four nominees are standing for election to two open seats on the Java SE/EE executive committee. One of the seats was opened by the departure of financial software developer and often incendiary blogger Hani Suleiman. Intel is vying for reelection to its own seat and issued a statement laying out its qualifications.

“Our efforts in optimizing the Sun version of the Java SE Platform have led to major improvements in performance,” the Intel statement reads. “We have also been one of the leading contributors to the Apache Harmony Java SE project, contributing the JVM and numerous components to the class libraries, tools and test suites. We optimize other Java software across the industry. Our aim in Java is to provide state-of-the-art performance and to ensure Java is able to take advantage of every new hardware capability.”

Another contender for a seat is Werner Keil, head of JSR 275, which seeks to create standards for working with units. Keil is also on the committees managing the JSRs behind Java EE 6 and Trusted Java, JSRs 316 and 321 respectively.

Matthew McCullough is a Java development consultant and programming contractor who also runs his local Java users group. He is the only person running for a seat on the SE/EE committee that has never worked on the development of a JSR.

Shashank Tiwari is on the expert group for JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 and 312. Tiwari is chief technologist for Chicago-based Saven Technologies, an IT solutions company.

On the Java ME executive committee, Jean-Marie Dautelle will not be returning for reelection. Sony Ericsson, however, is up for a second term and will be running against two opponents: Japanese mobile Java platform developer Aplix; and Sean Sheedy, formerly Sprint-Nextel's JCP representative.

The JCP's election process is divided into two segments: the ratification ballot and the general election. The ratification ballot was completed on Oct. 20, and it elevated SpringSource to the executive committee for the first time. Ericsson and SAP were both reelected to the Java SE/EE committee. IBM, Nokia and Phillips were all reelected to the Java ME committee.

Ballots for the general election are now open and can be submitted at www.jcpelection2008.org until Nov. 17.




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