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 ...

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 ...

The Java Community Process, for amending the Java platform, is getting a new chairman, according to Sun Microsystems. Onno Kluyt, chairman of the JCP since July 2004, is stepping down to move onto new ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I last sat down with Heather VanCura, chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), in 2017, roughly a year after she'd stepped up to head the Java language and platform standards organization. A lot has ...

Although it's nearly 25 years old, the Java programming language has gained renewed interest lately from major cloud platform providers -- namely, AWS and Microsoft. For instance, this week AWS joined ...

The Java Community Process, or JCP, was created by Sun as the standards setting body for the Java language, libraries, and runtime. From 1998 to 2009, Sun ruled the JCP with an iron fist, but now that ...

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 ...

With the JavaOne Java developers conference just around the corner in June, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has made ...

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 ...