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From the Editors: Election should shake up JCP

By SD Times News Team

November 17, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
The election of Spring creator Rod Johnson to the Java Community Process executive board could be the kick-start the organization needs to rekindle the enthusiasm of frustrated loyalists. Like them, Johnson will advocate for more openness in the process and for taking elements out of the class library to keep Java fresh. It’s just the kind of shakeup Java needs to emerge from its perceived torpor.

Johnson would appear to have the support of JCP chairman Patrick Curran, who also has pushed for more openness in the advancement of Java specifications. Johnson wants the organization to shift to a forum style of collaboration, abandoning the more-closed mailing lists and protected websites. That’s a good first step, but the rules of the organization might work against him.

In fact, it’s those very stifling rules that have led SpringSource, OSGi and Apache, not to mention other Java businesses, to work on advancing the specification themselves. The old Sun Microsystems chestnut “Collaborate on the standards, compete on the implementation” has broken down into an every-man-for-himself survival situation. Companies and open-source projects pile additions onto the specifications in an effort to work around issues that are held up in the JCP by politics and an arcane method of collaborating.

Johnson realizes what’s at stake. He realizes that if Java isn’t weeded every once in a while, it will be supplanted by leaner languages, such as Python and Ruby. He also believes that if an open-source project comes up with a technological solution that works, then it would be fine for the JCP to embrace the work and create a specification for it. The JCP (and by extension, Sun) needn’t have a monopoly on the creation of Java intellectual property, he believes.

We do too. With the advances in online collaboration and an industry-wide move toward more openness, Johnson wants to take the JCP in the right direction.

We hope the JCP can get beyond the rules, institute their blogs, forums and wikis, and get on with the business of bringing the language and the platform up to date.

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