JCP Awards

The JCP awards brightened up a wet Monday morning.

The Apache Software Foundation got the "Member of the Year" (!) award for its contributions and active participation in 2007.

JSR 308 was hailed as the most innovative JSR for Java SE/EE, although the other two contenders haven't issued a draft spec. yet either. A sign of things to come?

Not sure which JSR beat 291 in the "most contentious" category, but it could have been the abortive JSR 313.

But seriously, congratulations to "Participant of the Year" Wayne Carr who was a welcome voice of reason in the early days of JSR 277.