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Profiles of JCP EC Representatives

	Michael Bechauf
	Josh Bloch
	Wayne Carr
	Danny Coward
	Don Deutsch
	Scott Jameson
	Jens Jensen
	Rod Johnson
	Werner Keil
	Sacha Labourey
	Doug Lea
	Geir Magnusson
	Mike Milinkovich
	Bryn Rahm
	Makiko Shimamura
	Mark Thomas

The job of an Executive Committee (EC) representative is a serious commitment. The time required is extensive, and includes reading of specifications, Reference Implementations (RIs), and Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs), as well as regular attendance at EC meetings and teleconferences to discuss and vote on various technical and process topics. Besides voting on Java Specification Requests (JSRs) at various stages, the EC guides the Program Management Office (PMO) in the evolution of the Java Community Process (JCP) program. EC decisions can have significant, long-term consequences to not only the community, but also in the industry and the market. Still, plenty of JCP participants relish the task of representing a corporation, non-profit, open source group, or themselves.

Masahiko Narita

Fujitsu Limited is one of the largest computer systems companies in the world. It is headquartered in Japan, but markets and supports computer hardware and software products throughout the world, including its Java EE certified Interstage Application Server. Prior to using Java technology, many Fujitsu software products had to be developed and maintained in two versions: one for PC clients, and one for Apple clients. Allowing program device independence remains key to the appeal of Java technology.

Tracing back to 1996, Fujitsu has a history of implementing Java technologies across what may be the broadest range of platforms in the industry. The Fujitsu product line runs from super-computers to laptop PCs and hand-held devices, including mobile phones.

Fujitsu is an active player in the Java community. The company has been a member of the JCP Executive Committee (EC) since its inception. Over the years, Fujitsu has amassed an excellent record of SE/EE EC meeting attendance and JSR voting, just one vote shy of 100 percent every year. Fujitsu has participated in most of the EC ad hoc committees, where much of the detail work and planning is done, and in almost every EC press event held in the US and Europe. Fujitsu regularly participates on EC panels discussing the JCP and the role of the Executive Committee. At JavaOne, Fujitsu has regularly participated in the JCP awards presentation events and the JCP BOF sessions.

Masahiko Narita is Fujitsu's primary representative on the SE/EE EC. Participating in the EC keeps Fujitsu abreast of critical changes being considered to the JCP and the JSPA, and allows Fujitsu to influence the nature of those changes. Masahiko is the project director of the Strategy & Technology Division of the Software Group at Fujitsu Limited. He is considered the most highly qualified Fujitsu engineer for Object-Oriented technology projects.

Masahiko has been very active in promoting object technology in the Japanese market, particularly in leading cross-vendor Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), SOAP, and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)/Transaction interoperability tests through Distributed Object Promotion Group (DOPG), which is a vendor consortium for promotion of object technology in Japan. Among other things, the group verifies interoperability among member companies' ORB products. It was the first group in the world to conduct EJB Interoperability Tests. Recently, Masahiko led a cross-vendor ebXML interoperability test in the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM) and eBusiness Asia Committee. Masahiko sits on the Board of Directors (alternate) of the Web Services-Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and on the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group (OMG).

Fujitsu is involved in the JCP program at a grassroots level too, having participated in and/or supported 49 JSRs, by serving once as Spec Lead and numerous times as Expert Group members. In particular, Fujitsu helped develop the new version of the JCP, JCP 2.6, JCP 2.5, JSPA 2, SIP Servlet Version 1.1, and various XML, Web Services, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), and JAIN JSRs, plus key SE/EE umbrella JSRs.

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