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URL: JSR Proposal: Closures for Java
At 1:54 AM on Nov 12, 2007, Geertjan wrote:
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A milestone for the Java Community—the Belgian Java Users Group , BeJUG, and the Brazilian Java Users Group , SouJava, are jointly submitting the first JSR filed by a Java Users Group: a language JSR for JDK7. In the spirit of openness exemplified by the open-source JDK and Sun Microsystem's acceptance of leadership outside its own organization, the expert group will do its work on a publicly-readable mailing list.
The Closures for Java language extension was first described in a JavaPolis 2006 presentation (view talk on Parleys.com ), and has been an active topic of discussion at conferences, message boards, and blogs. The text of the JSR submission was negotiated earlier this year, and published at the end of April . One detail remained a mystery, though: who is the submitting organization? Now it had been revealed that the proposal will be a joint submission from the Belgian and Brazilian JUGs! It was formally submitted to the JCP on Wednesday, November 7, 2007.
The JSR will be presented next month at JavaPolis 2007 in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Re: First JSR filed by a Java Users Group
BeJUG and SouJava are definitely a couple of very proactive volunteer organizations. Regardless of whether you think this JSR is a good idea, it's great to see this kind of diversity playing a part in the shaping of Java.Cheers,
David
Re: First JSR filed by a Java Users Group
It does not seem to have a formal JSR number yet, but that may only be generated, if the request is accepted?Some of the people mentioned as interested partners are also actively involved in other JSRs or even lead them, so I hope, to meet most of them and also find out more about this JSR, when presenting another JSR for Java 7 at JavaPolis myself...
Re: First JSR filed by a Java Users Group
For the record, here is a clarification of the original announcement as posted by Stefan Janssen of BeJUG:"Both Google and Sun Microsystems have requested following clarification in regards to our newsflash from November 11th 2007.
"Google had no part in the BeJUG newsflash/announcement and no involvement in any Closures JSR."
"We regret any confusion that may have been caused by this mailing, and by the premature release of the details of the 'smaller language features' JSR."
"We misspoke when we said that "This will be the first Java language JSR led outside of Sun Microsystems." Of course no JSR can proceed without approval from the JCP EC, which has not yet been secured."
Re: First JSR filed by a Java Users Group
Thanks, but this article didn't refer to Google at all. So, your clarification doesn't clarify anything in this context.