JetBrains has been on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) for nearly two years, having been re-elected in November 2018. We want to take a minute to summarize a little of what we've seen so far; to look forward into the future; and to answer some common questions. JetBrains wants to represent the interests of Java developers. We're in a good position to do this because: a) as IntelliJ IDEA is the most used Java IDE we have a lot of customers who are Java developers and are not shy in letting us know their opinions; and b) we have a lot of Java and JVM developers in our c

Recently the Java Community Process had a Special Election to fill the two vacant ratified seats on the Executive Committee (EC).  JetBrains was honoured to be elected, and will serve on the Executive Committee until 2018. The Java Community Process is the mechanism for developing specifications for Java. Java Specification Requests (which may cover Java EE specs, for example, or define what's going to be in the next version of Java) describe the standards for new (or sometimes existing) functionality, and the JSRs have to pass through a series of gateways before they are finally approved and