Spotlight: What Does the Future Hold for the Java Community Process?

Our java.net spotlight this week is Ed Burnette's interview with former JCP Executive Committee member Tony de la Lama. The topic of the interview is "What does the future hold for the Java Community Process (JCP)?" Recently, I discussed the topic with Tony de la Lama, senior vice president of research and development, at Embarcadero Technologies. Tony was a JCP founding executive committee member from 2000-2003 and prior to joining Embarcadero was general manager of Borland's Java business, so he knows a thing or two about how the JCP works (or fails to work). Back in the time frame when Tony was a member of the JCP, I was evaluating application servers for a small company that was planning to launch an online bill payment system. We were planning to use Java application servers as the backbone of a highly scalable back end. Borland had an application server at that time, and the presentation they gave to us was pretty impressive. So, I wonder if perhaps I had some contact with Tony back then. Of course, we also considered other appserver vendors, including IBM and WebLogic. Ultimately, I worked on a partnership agreement that my company signed with WebLogic. Unfortunately, the project never actually happened, becoming yet another victim of the dot-com crash. But back to the interview. In Tony's view, the JCP is a central aspect of what must be improved with respect to Java, due in particular to its glacial rate o...

Date: April, 05 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/04/05/spotlight-what-does-future-hold-jave-community-process

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