first JEE without unanimous approval?

[asookazian]

Is this true (referring to 1st sentence below)?

You didn't note that this is the first JEE to not have a unanimous decision. The Apache Foundation voted no (on principle, rather than technical merit) and both IBM and SAP commented on the licensing issue, which was not made available until the start of the vote two weeks ago.

http://alblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/jee-6-approved-but-licensing-issues.html

Sadly, the JCP seems to be moving towards irrelevance; one wonders how long it will last?

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=275612

[asookazian]

SAP AG:

However, we are disappointed that Sun Microsystems as the Spec Lead of the Java EE 6 specification has not managed to produce the promised full license terms of the Java EE 6 TCK until the begin of the two week voting window for Java EE 6. Given the complexity of this license, we are unfortunately not in a position to complete a thorough legal review. At a minimum, we would expect that the TCK is not used to prevent access to the Java marketplace, including open source implementations. This JSR has been filed in July 2007; we believe there would have been ample time to share and discuss the proposed full license terms with the community.

in any event, I'm excited that it's final!  now when will JBoss 6 go GA/final release?

[nickarls]

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=748

Much closer call

[asookazian]

you're right, so the statement is not true since J2EE 1.3 (but maybe it is when only considering JEE 5 and JEE 6).

In any event, I noticed that SpringSource did not vote for EE6.  If they voted no I would not be surprised...

[nickarls]

When all 1054 issues in the JIRA is closed or slipped.

[nickarls]

If they vote yes, they show support. If they vote no, people think they do so because of the competition. If they abstain, they look silly and people still think they do so because of the competition. Like Gavin said, their mission of opening up the JCP has been a joke. Hey, I want to be a member too, I know how to abstain from voting!