On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>
wrote:
> Hello Volunteers,
>
> You may have seen my colleague John Clingan's blog post updating the
> community on the roadmap for Java EE 8 [1]. The most important sentence
> has been helpfully bold-faced, and I repeat it here for convenience.
>
> We are therefore publicly announcing that we are now changing our
> target time frame for the completion of this work to the first half of
> 2017.
>
> I'd like to take the opportunity presented by this blog post to sketch
> out a plan to have an Early Draft Review (EDR) of the specification
> available in time for JavaOne 2015. In my opinion, we need to specify
> the following features in order to have something worth calling an EDR:
>
> * HTTP/2 Server Push
>
> * Inclusion or intentional ignoring of Reactive Streams
>
FYI - the discussion on http 2 client api
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2015-July/thread.html#9046
Seems useful if the client and server follow the same model, and often
servers need proxy data too (even when the downstream rpc protocols are
different).
>
> And in addition to that, we need to close out open issues on the mailing
> list.
>
> As you know, I am also co-leading the JSF specification and supporting
> JSF in Oracle products, and Shing-wai is also supporting Servlet in
> Oracle products so our time will be split between Servlet and those
> other efforts. I plan to take each of the above issues in turn and make
> steady progress on them as time permits.
>
> Ed
>
> [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_8_roadmap_update
>
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