Arm with its partners are, like Java, present everywhere from embedded devices to cloud servers. Therefore we see the Java Platform as vitally important to our customer's success and consequently regard membership of the JCP important for ensuring that Java continues to work well on Arm platforms.

Stuart Monteith is a principal software engineer in the Open-Source Software group at Arm in Cambridge, UK. There he has worked on virtual machines, most recently OpenJDK, often under the auspices of Linaro. Prior to this he worked in IBM with the JVM on various Linux platforms and other projects such as JSR-326. He has worked with Java since 1996 during his degree course at the University of Strathclyde.

Fujitsu has a long history of implementing Java technologies, going back to 1996. Fujitsu has implemented Java across what is the broadest range of platforms. Fujitsu provides the Java EE certified Interstage Application Server. Fujitsu has been a member of the JCP/Executive Committee since its inception and participated in and/or supported over fifty JSRs. Fujitsu hosted the JCP EC F2F meeting in 2019 in Japan. At Code One 2019 Fujitsu got JCP Award for "Long Standing EC Member".

After moving Java EE to Eclipse Foundation, Fujitsu makes a great effort to build Java eco systems in Jakarta EE working group.

Kenji Kazumura is working for Fujitsu Limited as a Java Architect, and also is in charge of developing Interstage which is Java EE certified application server. He has optimized the several huge enterprise Java applications, specifically in the field of mobile communication and financial service, in order to run with high performance and reliability. He has participated in the Expert Group of JSR 204 and 382, and is now working to make the cloud and micro services environment be more useful by accelerating Java technology into this area.

IBM and Red Hat have been innovators, implementers, and users of Java for over 20 years, and rely upon the standards set by the JCP to build integrated hardware and software solutions stacks. We see open governance and standards as key components to the success of the Java ecosystem going forward, and bring a significant technical and business perspective to the JCP discussions.

IBM Position Statement (.pdf file)

Mark has been heavily involved in standards efforts such as the OMG where he was a collaborator on the Object Transaction Service specifications and chair of the Additional Structuring Mechanisms for the OTS. In OASIS he worked on the BTP specification and was also involved with WS-CAF, WS-TX, WS-RX and others, working closely with colleagues from Microsoft, IBM, etc. He was involved with the W3C WS-Addressing working group since it started as well as the WS-Policy and WS-CDL committees.

A significant population of developers and end-users run Java on Intel architecture platforms, providing Intel with unique perspectives on the Java platform, that of software and hardware working together to move Java forward. Intel has actively contributed to the JCP since 2002, participated in more than 20 JSRs, worked with major JVM vendors on Java optimizations, published many research papers and participated in major conferences, including CodeOne 2019. Intel is actively contributing to a number of forward looking OpenJDK efforts such as the Panama project.

Intel Position Statement (.pdf file)

Steve Dohrmann is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intel. He has worked on various Java projects over the past 20 years, and is passionate about Java and its future. His Java development work includes the Java Media Framework, mobile agent software, secure collaboration software, a cryptography framework, embedded parallel programming for Java, and enabling Java to use persistent memory.

SouJava (the "Java Users Society") is an established non-profit organization and Java User Group focused on strengthening the Brazilian Java developer community. Founded in 1998 and based in São Paulo, SouJava congregates over 40 thousand members throughout the country. SouJava was the first JUG to join the JCP and has been active in the Process for almost a decade. During this time, the group had an important role on the open source of Java, to the point that Dr. Dobbs Magazine considered at the time Brazil as the reason for the release of OpenJDK. For the last two years, SouJava has used its role in the JCP EC to improve the participation of JUGs, individuals and small companies into shaping the future of Java by participating strongly on the Adopt-a-JSR program, with 80+ of the groups members involved in promoting and adopting JSRs and also leading the discussions that propose to increase membership and participation from individuals and non-profits into the JCP.

SouJava considers the JCP a fundamental part of the Java ecosystem. The long-term success of Java depends on a process that encourages vendors, developers and users to contribute and innovate, and that gives everyone the necessary rights to implement the results. SouJava is committed to ensuring that the JCP is balanced and transparent, and that there is an equal standing among JCP members. As an active participant in open-source efforts, the group intends to help ensure that FOSS projects and implementations of Java standards are able to both bring contributions, and also to share process results. As a leading member of the worldwide Java Users Group Community, SouJava is committed to defend and promote JUG participation at the JCP.

For the last two years, as member of the JCP EC, SouJava has strived to bring its passion for community, JUGs, open source, standards, and Java to the JCP, and thus foster transparency and participation. After two years of strong involvement, we look forward to increase even more our relationship with the Java community, and we appreciate your support so we can continue to work towards a better JCP.

Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (Sociedade de Usuários da Tecnologia Java; Java Technology Users Society) and leader of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community at Java.net, Bruno helped in the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide. For the past 2 years, Bruno has represented SouJava on the JCP EC, where he has defended transparency and participation as means to improve the process.

A Java Developer since the earliest days of the technology, Bruno took part in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is a Principal Consultant at Summa Technologies, and has extensive experience in large projects in the Government, finance and service industries. A Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud, he promotes and develops cloud-based systems using Java. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno works actively with Java open source communities and projects.

Bruno Souza is a Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), President of the innovation-focused Campus Party Institute, and Coordinator of Nuvem, the Cloud Computing Lab of LSI/USP. When not in a computer, Bruno enjoys time with his family in a little hideout near São Paulo, where he tends to his other passions of being an amateur father and puppeteer.

BellSoft Position Statement (.pdf file)

Tomitribe Position Statement (.pdf file)

Twitter relies on the JVM as the language runtime for its services. We are solving uniquely challenging problems when it comes to designing software at our scale and do so by heavily leveraging many open-source projects; some, like Finagle, we have created in-house and some, like OpenJDK, we have adopted, adapted, and actively contribute to. The main goal of our JCP EC membership is to ensure that OpenJDK remains a viable, high performance, and fully-featured open source platform.

Twitter Position Statement (.pdf file)

Tony Printezis is a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter and a member of the #TwitterVMTeam. He has 20+ years of virtual machine and language runtime implementation experience, with special focus on memory management, and he is an OpenJDK / HotSpot group committer and reviewer. He was one of the designers of the G1 GC and the original implementer of the CMS GC. Before Twitter, Tony worked at Adobe, Oracle, and Sun. He holds a PhD and a BSc(Hons) in Computing Science, both from Glasgow University.

Marcus wants to join the executive JCP committee so that he can participate in helping to formalize, standardize and evolve Java technologies. Java is a powerful language that has grown a lot over the years. Marcus wants to actively contribute to ensure that Java continues to meet the requirements of a modern programming language, while still allowing us to write simple, clean code.

Marcus (@MarcusBiel) is a well known figure in the Java community, with a total of 75 000 followers across various social media platforms. In 2019 he was named Oracle Developer Champion (Groundbreaker Ambassador). Marcus is a regular speaker at Java conferences all over the world, such as JBCN Conf Barcelona, JPoint Moscow and JAX London. Besides this, he works as a technical reviewer for renowned Java books such as Effective Java, Core Java SE 9 for the Impatient or Java by Comparison.

I am not representing an organization. rather I see myself as representing the education sector in general.

Ken Fogel Position Statement (.pdf file)

I am a professor in the Computer Science Technology program at Dawson College in Montreal. The program's mandate is to train students, primarily right out of high school, to become job-ready software developers. In 2019 I became Java Champion. Four years ago I began a free one-day conference in Montreal called DawsCon. I have attracted some of the finest presenters to speak to both students and the local developer community. I have also spoken at JavaOne/CodeOne for that past six years.

Werner worked with Java since the first JDK. joined JCP 14 years ago and served 9 years as Individual EC member. A very active participant in many JSRs from Java EE to ME. Before Oracle acquired BEA, Werner was its only external consultant in the EMEA region. He is author of articles, books and tutorials, regular conference speaker and founder or contributor to Open Source projects like Unit-API, JavaMoney, Eclipse Babel, UOMo, MicroProfile, OpenDDR and helps Jakarta EE in the Spec Committee.

Werner Keil Position Statement (.pdf file)

Werner Keil is Java, Microservice and Embedded expert for a security firm. Helping Global 500 Enterprises across industries and leading IT vendors. He worked for over 30 years as PM, Coach, SW architect and consultant for Finance, Mobile, Media, Transport or Public sector. Werner is Eclipse, Apache Committer and JCP member in JSRs like 354 (Money), 363, JCP.next, 365 (CDI 2), 366 (Java EE 8), 375 (Security), 380 (Bean Validation 2), 385 (Units 2 also Spec Lead) and the Jakarta EE Spec Committee.

Ix-chel has a track record of helping Java developer communities across the globe. She participates often at international events as event organizer, speaker, and mentee. Ix-chel has a keen eye for establishing relationships and links between people, allowing them to reach new heights.

Ix-chel Ruiz has developed software application & tools since 2000. Her research interests include Java, dynamic languages, client-side technologies and testing. Java Champion, Oracle Developer Champion, hackergarten enthusiast, Open Source advocate, public speaker and mentor.

Why does he want to be part of the executive JCP committee? Over the last years, I got the greate chance of travelling around the globe and joining the community as a speaker, giving workshops or just sharing knowledge. These activities are just the first step to give a bit back what I am using over 20yrs now. After such a long time working with the outcome of this fantastic community, it would be a pleasure for me to get the chance to work actively more involved in the future of this ecosystem.

Sven is working with Java since 1996 in industrial projects. He was working over 15 years as a consultant worldwide in industries like Automotive, Space, Insurance, Banking, UN and WorldBank. During the last years before he joined Vaadin 2017, he was Head of R&D at a reply company. Since he is Developer Advocate at Vaadin, Sven is working on Mutation Testing of Web apps and Distributed UnitTesting besides his evergreen topic Core Java.

Undoubtedly, we are experiencing a new era in the Java ecosystem with all the latest activities (e.g. Java EE moving to Jakarta EE). If elected, Utrecht JUG will continue being active and passionate about formal JSR processes and will keep evangelising Java and JSRs as it did this last year at several events (e.g. DWX, Oracle CodeOne, JCON, JFall, CodeMotion, Devoxx).

Utrecht JUG Position Statement (.pdf file)

Thodoris works as a Scrum Master at ABN Amro Bank and is the Founder & Leader of the Utrecht Java User Group (Utrecht JUG). Thodoris serves as Expert Group member of JSR 385. He started his public speaking activities this year by advocating JSR-385 in several conferences around the world and also helps developers to grow their career. Thodoris is always passionate about the Java ecosystem.