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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew ...