The upstart open-source software provider says it will participate as a company in Java technical committees in another effort to improve its standing in the Java community. Martin LaMonica is a ...

IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies ...

A system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew ...