As Chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), the technology standards and specifications organization behind the evolution of the Java language and platform, Heather VanCura has a lot on her plate.

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Oracle’s handling of the JCP (Java Community Process) is under fire from some insiders, who do not see a level playing field in Java technology standardization. The JCP determines which technologies ...

I last sat down with Heather VanCura, chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), in 2017, roughly a year after she'd stepped up to head the Java language and platform standards organization. A lot has ...

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When Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems a few weeks ago, one of the pledges the company made pertaining to its newly acquired Sun technologies was to make the Java Community Process ...

With the JavaOne Java developers conference just around the corner in June, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has made ...

Recently, I wrote a column that asked the question: Is this the end of Java as we know it? That question was triggered by a proposal to the Java Community Process (JCP) for an enhancement to the Java ...

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It's been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But ...

The JCP has made key changes to JCP 2.6 that will make the process of finalizing Java Specification Requests (JSRs)--which ultimately can become Java standards--more transparent to the public, said ...