Open-source Java software company JBoss Group said on Monday that it will participate in the Sun Microsystems-controlled process that dictates the technical direction of Java software. Developers from ...

The JCP has made key changes to JCP 2.6 that will make the process of finalizing Java Specification Requests (JSRs)--which ultimately can become Java standards--more transparent to the public, said ...

The Java Community Process is frequently under fire from community members who have called for greater transparency and even independence from Sun. Some say the real problem with the JCP is too little ...

It's been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But ...

Meeting at Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara, Calif., campus last month, members of the JCP,the group of vendors that create standard Java technologies,said the process of finalizing Java standards often ...

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IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies ...

The upstart open-source software provider says it will participate as a company in Java technical committees in another effort to improve its standing in the Java community. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Newfound commitment to the Java platform includes releases of Microsoft Build for OpenJDK in May and Language Support for Java on Visual Studio Code in October. Looking to deepen its investment in ...

You'd think I'd have seen it coming. All the signs were there. There was the day Microsoft announced that it had joined the OpenJDK project back in 2019. Then there ...