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title: 'Doug Lea tritt aus dem JCP aus'
url: 'https://www.tutego.de/blog/javainsel/2010/10/doug-lea-tritt-aus-dem-jcp-aus'
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date: '2010-10-24'
description: 'Here is the promised explanation for why I am not seeking another term on the JCP Executive Committee: I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body, and there is no remaining useful role for an independent advocate for the academic and research community on the E…'
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# Doug Lea tritt aus dem JCP aus

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## Doug Lea tritt aus dem JCP aus

24.10.2010 · [Christian Ullenboom](https://www.tutego.de/blog/javainsel/author/admin/)

> ```text
> Here is the promised explanation for why I am not seeking another term
> on the JCP Executive Committee: I believe that the JCP is no longer a
> credible specification and standards body, and there is no remaining
> useful role for an independent advocate for the academic and research
> community on the EC.
> 
> Some have argued that JCP was never a credible standards body.  I once
> disagreed: Sun initially placed in the JSPA and Process documents
> enough rules to ensure that the JCP could foster innovation, quality,
> and diversity, independent of that from Sun, with few enough (albeit
> annoying) exceptions to allow JCP to drive consensual progress more
> successfully than seen in most standards bodies.  However, some of
> these rules, and violations of rules, have been found to be the source
> of stalemates and lost technical ground. Rather than fixing rules or
> ceasing violations, Oracle now promises to simply disregard them.  If
> they indeed act as they have promised, then the JCP can never again
> become more than an approval body for Oracle-backed initiatives.
> (Oracle's choice of timing submission of SE release JSRs forced me to
> decide not to stand for another term based only on those promises, not
> on the actual actions.)  I urge other EC members to consider whether
> short term "pragmatism" in voting outweighs such consequences.
> 
> So, what are the alternatives?
> 
> For the core Java platform (which these days roughly corresponds to
> Java SE), the only existing vehicle for which I can foresee a useful
> role for the academic and research community is OpenJDK.  OpenJDK is a
> shared-source, not shared-spec body, so is superficially not an
> alternative at all. But at this point, a Linux-style model for
> collaboratively developed common source is likely to be more effective
> in meeting upcoming challenges than is the JCP.  (In which case, of
> course, the main role of JCP is only to approve specs for various
> freeze-points that represent releases.) For this reason, I've
> volunteered to continue and increase involvement to better establish
> the reincarnated OpenJDK as such a body.
> 
> For other efforts, I cannot recommend to anyone that they use the JCP
> JSR process, as opposed to some other group/organization/body, to gain
> consensus for proposed specifications. So I expect to see fewer
> submissions as people begin to realize that other venues provide
> better opportunities. I suppose there is some possibility that I
> will help improve support for such standards elsewhere, but I don't
> have any immediate plans.
> 
> I could of course be wrong about all this, and hope that other EC
> members try hard to prove me wrong.
> 
> I am sending this to the EC, to make sure you all hear this
> from me directly first. But feel free to distribute. For simplicity,
> I placed a copy at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/jcp22oct10.html.
> ```

Mal sehen wer folgt, und welchen Einfluss das auf die Java 7, Java 8 und die Familie der [Concurrency Utilities](http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/concurrency/) hat.

Weiterhin ist folgende Bemerkung lesenswert: .

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