The Istanbul JUG has been spinning up it's participation in Java EE 8 through Adopt-a-JSR. They have already taken an interest in JSON-P 1.1, MVC and JMS 2.1 with many more Java EE 8 JSRs on their radar. The Istanbul JUG is the first Turkish JUG to engage with Adopt-a-JSR and Java EE 8.
Towards this end the JUG is hosting an online webinar on the proposed changes in JSON-P 1.1 to better involve JUG members. These changes include support for JSON Pointer, JSON Patch and JSON Patch-Merge as well as Java SE 8 alignment. They will be using the recently released specification early draft to drive the discussion. The meeting will be hosted online so anyone can participate. The event will be held on September 3rd, 9:00 PM Istanbul time. Details of the meeting can be found here. The linked page also includes a registration form for the webinar. Note the meeting will be in Turkish.
The Adopt-a-JSR program is one the key things we are trying hard to do differently for Java EE 8 with the goal making this version of the platform one of the most community driven technologies ever developed. Here are just some of the things you could help do via the program right now:
- Raise awareness on Java EE 8 or Adopt-a-JSR by doing a talk or writing a blog entry.
- Read and provide feedback on the MVC specification early draft.
- Try out the MVC specification reference implementation early builds.
- Help contribute to the MVC specification reference implementation.
- Join the MVC specification mailing lists.
- Try out the JSF specification reference implementation early builds.
- Help contribute to the JSF specification reference implementation.
- Join the JSF specification mailing lists and discuss the contents of the upcoming early draft.
- Join the security specification mailing lists.
- Join the CDI specification mailing lists.
- Read the CDI 2 specification early draft and provide your feedback.
- Read and provide feedback on the plan to improving asynchronous JMS message listeners in Java EE.
- Join the JMS specification mailing lists.
- Join the JSON-P specification mailing lists.
- Read the JSON-P 1.1 specification early draft and provide your feedback.
- Join the Servlet 4 specification mailing lists and discuss the contents of the upcoming early draft.
- Join the JSON-B specification mailing lists and discuss the early draft.
The full details for Adopt-a-JSR/Java EE 8 is always available here. Remember that if you have any questions on any of this, you are always welcome to drop me a note.
