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Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Java Community Process Does One Right

Here's an article from Sun that describes a working group that achieved more transparency. The way that Java evolves (the JCP: nice in theory, clumsy in practice) is one of that platform's biggest problems. The article is a bit of a puff piece, but at least it acknowledges that major problems exist with the JCP and supports the practices of a working group that avoided them.

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