An open standard like Java/EE involves a lot of hard work from a lot of different groups of people. The hard work of these people, largely selflessly, benefit countless developers. For specification leads the work in the JCP is often far beyond just a job. I have seen the same to be true of many vendor experts on a specification. Especially admirable are the independents that contribute to specifications largely on their own time as well as Adopt-a-JSR participants. The annual Java Community Process awards is a small way of recognizing some of these great people and their work. This year's award nominations are now open - you should read the details here. There are four different awards:
- JCP member or participant of the year
- Outstanding specification lead
- Most significant JSR
- Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR participant
The awards will be presented at JavaOne 2015. These are the nominations I have personally made already:
- Josh Juneau (for outstanding Adopt-a-JSR participant)
- Arjan Tijms (for JCP member of the year)
- Adam Bien (for JCP member of the year)
- David Blevins (for JCP member of the year)
- Ivar Grimstad (for JCP member of the year)
- Antoine Sabot-Durand (for outstanding specification lead)
- Manfred Riem and Santiago Pericas-Geertsen jointly (for outstanding specification lead)
- CDI 2 (for most significant JSR)
- MVC 1.0 (for most significant JSR)
