Welcome to the Java Specification Requests Community

Welcome to the JSR community, a gathering place of those who are involved in JSR projects as well as those interested in work defined by the JCP process. This community is designed to be a place for JSR discussion and collaboration. The development of the outputs of a JSR — the Specification, the Reference Implementation (RI) and the TCK — will take place here on java.net.

The JSR projects found here are led by Spec. leads who have decided to leverage java.net's infrastructure for JSR development and collaboration. You will also find other JSR discussions that may or may not be led by Spec. leads or those involved in the JSR. Each java.net hosted JSR Project has a public area where discussions will take place between the community and those involved in the JSR development project.

JSR Implementations are not found here.

Public Review: Order Management API

The Public Review for the Order Management API (JSR 264) has been released. It is one of the latest APIs specified within the OSS through Java Initiative (OSS/J). OSS means "Operations Support System" and describes the management infrastructure at a telecommunications service provider.

The Order Management API proposes a generic interface able to handle Product, Service, Resource and WorkOrder Orders. It also supports your very own definition of an order if the predefined extensions of the generic order do not meet your business requirements.

Apache Jackrabbit 1.0 released
Apache has announced the release of Jackrabbit 1.0, an implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR, JSR-170). The 1.0 release implements the full JCR API, including level 1, level 2, and all the optional features like versioning, transactions, and observation. Other components, listed as of alpha quality, are also included.

JavaOne 2005 Highlights
A new article available on jcp.org provides an overview and many photographs from the JCP-related fun at the 2005 JavaOne Conference, celebrating the 10 year birthday of Java technology. JCP program members took advantage of a variety of opportunities to mingle with fellow members, Experts, Spec Leads, EC members and members of the PMO.

JSR 208 - Java Business Integration (JBI) Passes Final Ballot
JSR 208 - Java Business Integration (JBI) has passed its final approval ballot. "Java Business Integration JSR (JBI) extends J2EE with business integration SPIs. These SPIs enable the creation of a Java business integration environment for specifications such as WSCI, BPEL4WS and the W3C Choreography Working Group." IBM and BEA both abstained with concern over the quality of the JSR.

Java Communities in Action - Third Edition
If you are attending JavaOne this year, don't miss the third edition of the Java Communities in Action event, including the JCP program, Jini Community, JXTA, java.net and NetBeans communities. There will be also other JCP community activities happening this year at the JavaOne Conference.

Happy First Anniversary: The Open Window of the JCP Program Version 2.6 Beckons Participants
A new feature on jcp.org this week celebrates the anniversary of the latest version of the JCP program. - Read more

JCP 2.6 Clears the Way for a New JSR Community on java.net
The JCP is running an article on our own JSR community titled JCP 2.6 Clears the Way for a New JSR Community on java.net noting " The primary benefit of JCP 2.6 is the transparency it now requires, freeing expert groups to reveal much more about a given Java Specification Request (JSR) as it is being developed."

JavaLive Chat Transcript: What's Happening in the Java Community Process?
Read the transcript of the recent online talk with Onno Kluyt, Chair of the JCP program, and Aaron Williams, Manager of the JCP Program Management Office and learn more about what's happening in the JCP and other related issues. This chat session happened on August 17, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT.

JSP and JSTL have joined our community!
We are proud to announce that JSP and JSTL are the first JSRs to have their public projects hosted at our community! Join their users and announce mailing lists for more information.
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Welcome to the JSR community
Welcome to our newest community, the JSR community. The java.net JSR community has been created to support the goals of JCP version 2.6 to make the process more transparent. File sharing, news groups, mailing lists and other services are among the services offered to help to achieve these objectives.

Welcome to the JavaServer (TM) Faces Implementation Project!
After several years of internal development, Sun felt it was time to open our kimono and share the source code of the official Reference Implementation for JavaServer(TM) Faces technology with the world. In this blog, I welcome you to the project, share the development model we have used to bring the project to its present state, and give some insight into where we want to go in the future.

More transparency into the JSTL Expert Group spec work
The jstl-spec-public project has just been launched to increase transparency into the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification work.

Open Source, Standards and Compatibility: Software Freedom, is this a valid concept?
It is interesting how a name can sometimes summarize many ideas and discussions... Software Freedom is Simon Phipps name for a broader guarantee of freedom.