JCP Too Heavy to be Fully Open?
Frank Sommers had a very interesting post on JCP/FOSS topics at JavaOne earlier this month. Essentially the question is; do the JCP processes (specification, implementation, and test suite) impose too much overhead such that purely FOSS-based JCPs do not make sense? It’s certainly worth considering, and also fills out for me some of the ongoing issues surrounding the issues surrounding TCKs with PhoneME. So the interesting question that follows is; if the JCP as it exists is not suitable for FOSS communities, what if anything should be done? Change the processes? Work on a new community-based system for defining open source standards based on Java?
