Friday, October 5, 2001
Scotts Valley, CA
Borland - A Proud Member of the Java Community Process and Executive Committee
Borland has been a licensee of Java since 1995. For the past 6 years, we have been an active partner with Sun
Microsystems supporting Java as a development platform vendor and as an original member of Executive Committee (EC) of
the Java Community Process (JCP). The JCP is an open organization of
members that work together to evolve the Java platform. The JCP charter is to develop
and revise Java specifications, reference
implementations, and technology compatibility kits. As everyone knows, Sun Microsystems
created Java and the JCP and worked with developers and licensees to create a formal community
process. JCP is management by the Process Management Office (PMO) within Sun Microsystems. The
PMO is a group that manages the daily operations of the program. You'll find more background information about the JCP program at
http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/background.html. There is also
a FAQ available for the JCP at
http://www.jcp.org/introduction/faq/index.jsp.
You can get involved in the JCP in three ways:
1) Expert - join an expert group and work on the specification.
2) Member - create JSRs, work on expert groups, review and comment on specifications.
3) Public - everyone can review and comment on specifications.
Two JCP Executive Committees (EC), one for J2SE/J2EE and one for J2ME, guide the
evolution of Java. Each EC has members chosen by the Java Community. Sun Microsystems maintains a permanent seat on each of the ECs.
The EC is responsible for: 1) selecting Java Specification Requests (JSRs) for development by the community process,
2) approval of specification drafts before they enter a public review period, 3) final
approval of specifications, 4) decisions on appeals of TCK test challenges, 5) review of maintenance
revisions to specifications, and 6) providing guidance to the PMO.
Tony de la Lama, vice president and general manager of Java solutions for Borland, told me,
"By participating as an Executive Committee member of the JCP we are
ensuring that the requirements of the Borland customer is heard at all
levels of Java standards creation. Having open and agreed upon Java
standards will provide businesses with a reliable and fully supported
enterprise computing platform for many years to come."
Current Executive Committee for J2SE/J2EE
| SE/EE EC Member | Representative | E-mail address | Term ends |
|---|
| Accenture | Michel K. Bowman | michel.k.bowman@accenture.com | 2001 |
| Apache Software Foundation | Jason Hunter | jhunter@apache.org | 2001 |
| Apple | Jun Han | junhan@apple.com | 2002 |
| BEA Systems | Ed Cobb | ed.cobb@bea.com | 2002 |
| Borland | Tony de la Lama | tdelalama@borland.com | 2001 |
| Caldera Systems | Darren Davis | drdavis@calderasystems.com | 2001 |
| Cisco Systems | Krishna Sankar | ksankar@cisco.com | 2002 |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | D J Powers | dj.powers@compaq.com | 2002 |
| Fujitsu Limited | Masahiko Narita | masahiko.narita@jp.fujitsu.com | 2003 |
| Hewlett-Packard | Scott Jameson | scott.jameson@gte.net | 2003 |
| IBM | Graham Barber | graham_barber@uk.ibm.com | 2003 |
| IONA Technologies | Patrick O'Brien | patrick.obrien@iona.com | 2002 |
| Doug Lea | Doug Lea | dl@cs.oswego.edu | 2003 |
| Oracle | Don Deutsch | deutsch@acm.org | 2003 |
| Sun Microsystems | Graham Hamilton | kgh@eng.sun.com | - |
| WebGain | Ted Farrell | ted.farrell@webgain.com | 2001 |
Current Executive Committee for J2ME
| ME EC Member | Representative | E-mail address | Term ends |
|---|
| BEA Systems | Dan Fishman | danf@bea.com | 2003 |
| Cisco Systems | Krishna Sankar | ksankar@cisco.com | 2002 |
| Ericsson | David Metcalfe | david.metcalfe@ericsson.com | 2002 |
| IBM | Paul Buck | buck@ca.ibm.com | 2002 |
| Insignia | Jeff Arnst | jeff.arnst@insignia.com | 2001 |
| Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. | Ikuo Minakata | min@isl.mei.co.jp | 2003 |
| Motorola | Anne-Marie Larkin | anne-marie.larkin@motorola.com | 2003 |
| Nokia | Pentti Savolainen | pentti.savolainen@nokia.com | 2002 |
| Palm | Phil Shoemaker | pshoemak@palm.com | 2003 |
| Philips | Jon Piesing | jon@prl.research.philips.com | 2002 |
| Research In Motion | Anthony Scian | ascian@rim.net | 2001 |
| Siemens AG | Lothar Borrmann | jcp@mchp.siemens.de | 2003 |
| Sony | Yuji Kohga | kohga@rd.sony.co.jp | 2001 |
| Sun Microsystems | Tim Lindholm | timothy.lindholm@eng.sun.com | - |
| Wind River | Joerg Bertholdt | joerg.bertholdt@windriver.com | 2001 |
| Zucotto Wireless | Dariusz Otreba | dariusz.otreba@zucotto.com | 2001 |
JCP Executive Committee 2001 Elections Are Underway
The JCP EC Elections 2001 are now underway. The EC election is one way that JCP members can take an
active part in the future of Java. News about the election is available at
http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/news/election01.html. More information
about the election can be found at
http://www.jcpelection2001.org/jcp/overview. To participate in the voting you must be a
JCP voting member.
Each year the PMO nominates community members to fill the vacant seats. Eligible
members vote to ratify each nominee over the 14-day voting period, that began at
9 AM PT, Monday, October 1st, and runs through Midnight PT, Monday, October 15th. Nominees are
ratified by a simple majority of the community members that cast votes. This year's nominees for the two
Executive Committees are:
Standard / Enterprise Edition Executive Committee
- Apache Software Foundation
- Borland Software Corporation
- Caldera Systems
Ratified Seats - Micro Edition Executive Committee
- Insignia Solutions
- Research In Motion, LTD (RIM)
- SONY International (Europe) GmbH
Borland Nominee-Provided Qualification Abstract
As part of the nomination and election process, Borland provided the following abstract:
Borland is a leading provider of professional e-business solutions for
organizations that demand a vendor independent J2EE-based implementation
platform that supports rapid time to market, high productivity,
performance and availability. An original licensee of the Java platform
in 1995, Borland is current licensee of all major Java 2 platforms
(J2ME, J2EE, J2SE) and has made many key contributions to this widely
adopted computing platform. Borland was an original author, with Sun,
of the JavaBeans specification and was instrumental in bringing the
first Java 2 implementation to the Linux platform. Borland is a
founding member of the Executive Committee (EC) of JCP and was elected
to EC in October of 2000. Borland continues to contribute to the
evolution of the Java platform through its position on the EC, as
well as its contribution on expert groups for many JSRs over the
past year. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley,
California, with operations worldwide.
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David Intersimone "David I"
Vice President, Developer Relations
davidi@borland.com
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