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If you are attending the Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, come join us for an evening of technical social at the Geek Out Social. Must be an Oracle AI World attendee to register.

The 2025 JCP EC election nominations have closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination. The ballot will open on November 4. All JCP Members eligible to participate in the election will receive a ballot and instructions via email.

Take a look at the Summer 2025 edition of the JCP Newsletter to learn what is going on in the JCP and Java community!
The most recent public JCP Executive Committee meeting was held on Tuesday, 10 June.

The agenda, materials, and recording from the meeting are now available.

The 2024 JCP Award winners were announced at the JCP Social Event in March 2025. Congratulations to Alan Bateman and JavaDominicano!
Thank you to those of you who were able to join us at the JCP Social Event at JavaOne on 18 March. It is the people that make the Java community such an amazing place.

We've posted pictures from the celebratory event.

Thank you everyone for joining us in celebrating the JCP 25-year anniversary!

Take a look at the Twenty-five years of the Java Community Process article for the recap of our anniversary.

Enjoy the Celebrating 25 years of the JCP with JUGs around the world video. Thank you to all the JUGs that participated in this amazing milestone!

The JCP Executive Committee forms working groups to address needs of the Java community. Currently, there are three such working groups: Java in Education, Java Ecosystem, and Java and AI.

• Java in Education is an initiative to promote Java in the local educational institutions.

  See the message from Heather VanCura, VP and Chairperson of the JCP Program.

• The goal of the Java Ecosystem JCP Working Group is to educate and increase awareness around Java ecosystem third-party tools and libraries to increase the adoption of modern release processes by third-party tool and library maintainers.

• The purpose of the Java and AI Working Group is to promote, support, and accelerate development of the Java platform for Artificial Intelligence.

JSR Updates

JSR 387, Streamline the JCP Program, has posted a Maintenance Release (2019).
JSR 364, Broadening JCP Membership, has posted a Maintenance Release (2017).
JSR 355, JCP Executive Committee Merge, completed its work and went final in 2012.
JSR 348, Towards a new version of the JCP, posed a Final Release in 2011.

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.

Following the upgrade to the JCP 2.8 Program, the Program Office has made available the following materials for Spec Leads on the Multimedia page of jcp.org:

• Adopt-a-JSR for Spec Leads (February 2013 call)
• 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)

The Java Community Process (JCP) program has seen a dramatic rise in worldwide participation. Read more here...