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GEEKS
RIDE ON
The Geek Bike Ride tradi-tion
continued at JavaOne
with 35 riders from nine
countries. Riders sported
jerseys designed by com-munity
members in Brazil
and enjoyed a sunny day of
heart-pumping activity.
JCP Awards
The Java Community
Process (JCP) presented
the 10th annual JCP
Awards and celebrated its
15th birthday at a gather-ing
atop the Hilton Hotel
on Monday night.
Heather VanCura
received the award for JCP
Program Member of the
Year for her leadership in
the Adopt-a-JSR program,
which provides a mecha-nism
for Java user groups
(JUGs) and individuals to
easily contribute to JSRs
and encourages grassroots
participation in crafting
the future of Java.
The Most Significant JSR
was awarded to JSR 360,
Connected Limited Device
Configuration (CLDC) 8,
Otávio Gonçalves de Santana
(top), Heather VanCura (top
and bottom), and Michael
Lagally (bottom)
which brings language features, including generics,
enumerations, and try-with-resources, from Java SE into
Java ME. Michael Lagally was recognized as Outstanding
Spec Lead for his efforts in spearheading JSR 360.
Otávio Gonçalves de Santana was awarded
Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant for his work on
JSR 354, Java Money and Concurrency—specifically in
migrating the codebase from Java 7 to Java 8.
BIKE RIDE PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN NILSON; JCP PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB LARSEN