Java SE 8 Maintenance Draft Review (JSR 337) posted to jcp.org

[Iris Clark]

Happy New Year!

 

The Maintenance Draft Review [0] contents for the Java SE 8 Platform 

JSR (337) was posted to jcp.org on 31 December 2014 [1].  The contents 

correspond to the updates outlined in the announcement [2] of our intention 

to conduct the Review and this approval request [3] to deprecate the 

Extension and Endorsed-Standards Override Mechanism.  Note that there is 

no change to the values returned by the system properties 

java.specification.version and java.vm.specification.version [4].  The 

Review ends on 2 February 2015 with the Ballot running from 3-9 February 2015.  

 

As in the original announcement, assuming that the Maintenance Review 

Ballot succeeds, Oracle will produce a Maintenance Release [5] of JSR 337 

which includes an updated Specification, RI, and TCK.  The Maintenance 

Release is expected about the same time as JDK 8 Update 40 [6], March 2015.

 

Thanks,

iris

 

[0] https://jcp.org/en/procedures/jcp2#5.2

[1] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337

[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2014-October/002302.html

[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2014-December/002648.html

[4] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2015-January/002807.html

[5] https://jcp.org/en/procedures/jcp2#5.3

[6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/8u/releases/8u40.html