{{no footnotes, date=April 2014 The JCP Executive Committee (EC) is the group of members guiding the evolution of Java technology in the

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(JCP). The EC represents both major stakeholders and a representative cross-section of the Java Community. It is composed of 16 JCP members plus a non-voting chair. The chair of the EC is a member of the Process Management Office (PMO). The 16 voting members are selected from JCP members.
The EC is responsible for approving the passage of specifications through key points of the JCP and for reconciling discrepancies between specifications and their associated test suites. There were originally two ECs: the SE/EE EC oversees the Java technologies for the desktop/server space (with responsibility for the

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and

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specifications) and the ME EC oversees the Java technologies for the consumer/embedded space (with responsibility for the

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specification). The two ECs were merged in August 2012, with the passage of JSR 355. The current membership consists of large Java vendors, such as Oracle, IBM, HP, Fujitsu & Red Hat. Also represented are "end-user" companies, including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse & TOTVS. Two Java User Groups,

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and the London Java Community also hold seats, as does the Eclipse Foundation.

Responsibilities

Each Executive Committee is expected to: * Select Java Specification Requests (JSR) for development within the JCP. * Approve draft specifications for public review. * Give final approval to completed specifications and their associated Reference Implementations (RI) and

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s (TCK). * Decide appeals of first-level TCK test challenges. * Review maintenance revisions and possibly require some to be carried out in a new JSR. * Approve transfer of maintenance duties between members. * Provide guidance to the PMO.

References

JCP Executive Committee
information at the Java Community Process web site.
JCP 2 Process Document
Appendix A: Executive Committee Policies and Procedures. Java platform