Oracle provides centralized standardization of Java

January 27th, 2012 | Posted by synt4x in General

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Oracle Corporation proposes to change the rules of a committee responsible for oversight and standardization of technical standards development language Java. Oracle proposal is to create a single central committee, other than the now defunct distributed structure. Oracle, said that the current committee is responsible for standardization of Java is designed so that the statement of standards into a long and unproductive process, but also for the standardization of Java EE / SE and Java ME are responsible de facto different structure that separates the different versions of the language development of each other. In practice, this means increasing the probability of incompatibility between different Java-based applications with each other.

Recall that Oracle received the reins of government over Java, having bought Sun Microsystems, but still with the standardization of language and development environment meets the JCP or Java Community Process – formally independent of the structure Oracle and includes several other companies and groups of individual programmers interested in Java. ”Changes in the market and the growing maturity of the JavaME Java market as a whole, requires rebalancing between Java ME and other platforms. standardizing processes combining different variants Java, we will develop the language more acceptable and comfortable, “says the proposal Oracle.

The corporation said that combining the processes of standardization of different versions of Java, it will be possible to unite and committees responsible for standardization. The proposal calls for the Oracle to reduce the number of members of the committee standardizing to 32, and adopting the standard format of up to 75% support of its members. At the same time, Oracle also suggests that the number of representatives of a company in the committee was reduced to one per company. Recall that in the JCP representatives of both the Oracle, and the companies IBM, Siemens, Intel and others. They represent the so-called expert group.