For more information about the JCP Program, refer to our overview page.

Oracle and the Java Community Process members announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7.

The next JCP EC Meeting, and the first public EC Meeting of 2013, is scheduled for Tuesday, 11 June at 08:00 AM PDT. The agenda includes a JSR 358, A major revision of the Java Community Process aka JCP.next.3, update and status report. We hope you will join us, but if you cannot attend, the recording and materials will also be public on the JCP Multimedia Page. Check out our blog for meeting details.

The Adopt-a-JSR for Non-English Speakers call was hosted on May 31; the recording and the slides are available on the JCP Multimedia Page.

The PMO announced the 2012 Star Spec Leads.

Three Adopt-a-JSR calls were hosted in January and February: Adopt-a-JSR Program (Janaury 18), Adopt-a-JSR for Spec Leads (February 15) and Adopt-a-JSR Hackdays (February 27). All of the recording and materials are available on the JCP Multimedia Page.

There is a transparency sub-project introduced as part of the Adopt-a-JSR program. We need JUGs or individuals to do transparency checks or audits on JSRs.

The merged EC is now in effect. For more information, read the Java Community Process (JCP) version 2.9 with a Merged Executive Committee (EC) takes effect 13 November article.

Read the blog on Meet the Spec Leads & Active JSRs and nominate a Star Spec Lead.

• JCP 2.9 and Transparency (November 2012 call)
• Meet the Candidates (October 2012 call)
• Expert Group Nominations (June 2012 call)
• Leveraging the JCP Community (February 2012 call)
• Transparency (December 2011 call)
• JCP 2.8 Overview (October 2011 call)

Read a news article on JCP 2.8 here...

Listen to the JCP 2.8 for Spec Leads call and follow along with the materials.

• Video interview with Justin Kestelyn from the Oracle Technology Network
• Written interview with Janice Heiss, also from the Oracle Technology Network
• Audio interview with Roger Brinkley, one of Oracle's Java Community Leaders

JSR Updates

New JSRs   Early Draft Reviews JSR 354, Money and Currency API JSR 359, SIP Servlet 2.0 JSR 360, CLDC 8 JSR 361, Java ME Embedded Profile Public Reviews   Proposed Final Drafts

Final Releases JSR 236, Concurrency Utilities for Java EE JSR 338, Java Persistence 2.1 JSR 339, JAX-RS 2.0 JSR 340, Java Servlet 3.1 JSR 341, Expression Language 3.0 JSR 342, Java EE 7 JSR 343, Java Message Service 2.0 JSR 344, JavaServer Faces 2.2 JSR 345, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 JSR 346, Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1 JSR 349, Bean Validation 1.1 JSR 352, Batch Applications for the Java Platform JSR 353, Java API for JSON Processing JSR 356, Java API for WebSocket Maintenance Releases JSR 109, Implementing Enterprise Web Services JSR 115, Java Authorization Contract for Containers JSR 196, Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers JSR 245, JavaServer Pages 2.1 JSR 322, Java EE Connector Architecture JSR 919, JavaMail