Ongoing Special Projects
Java Enhancement Proposals present design and implementation changes to the Java platform. The criteria for a JEP being drafted is that the work must meet at least one of the following:
- At least two weeks of engineering work
- Signifies a significant change to the JDK
- Represents a high demand issue for developers or customers
Projects, on the other hand, represent collaborative efforts that are sponsored by one of the following groups:
- 2D Graphics
- Adoption
- AWT
- Build
- Compatibility and specification review
- Compiler
- Conformance
- Core Libraries
- Governing Board
- HotSpot
- Internationalization
- JMX
- Members
- Networking
- NetBeans Projects
- Porters
- Quality
- Security
- Serviceability
- Sound
- Swing
- Web
Groups are formal and new ones can be proposed.
The following listed active projects represent possible future enhancement areas to the Java platform. Brief information about each project is provided later in this section and provides insight into general areas of future changes:
- Annotations pipeline 2.0
- Audio Synthesis...
