From Petr.Wallenfels@csni.cz Tue Nov 2 15:34:12 1999 Received: from mail.csni.cz (mail.csni.cz [195.250.142.50]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA83408; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:34:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Petr.Wallenfels@csni.cz) From: Petr.Wallenfels@csni.cz Received: from biskup.csni.cz ([192.168.2.4]) by mail.csni.cz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA14677; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:37:25 +0100 Received: by biskup.csni.cz(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (733.2 10-16-1998)) id 4125681D.00500219 ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:33:54 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: CSNI To: sc22info@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Message-ID: <4125681D.005000CC.00@biskup.csni.cz> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 16:12:51 +0100 Subject: (SC22docs.862) SC22 N3030 - Report of ECMA TC41 Meeting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline ______________________ beginning of title page _______________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3030 TITLE: Report of the SC22 Liaison on ECMA TC41 Meeting Held October 25-26, 1999 in Menlo Park, California, USA DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-10-27 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: SC22 Liaison Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@radix.net ____________ end of title page; beginning of report _____________________ From: Bob Mathis Subject: Report to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 and SC22 Java Study Group Notes from the first meeting of ECMA TC41 Java, October 25-26, 1999 The meeting was hosted by Sun in Menlo Park, California, and began with a general introduction by Jan van den Beld (ECMA Secretary General), a welcome by Jim Mitchell (Sun Vice President) and an introduction to the submitted documents by Tim Lindholm (Sun). Michael Wheatley (IBM) is chairman of TC41 and conducted the rest of the meeting. A delegation from the Japanese National Java Study Group raised the issue (that has also been raised within the Java Study Group) of what to standardize. The Terms of Reference for TC-41 say "Develop a standard for a cross-platform computing environment based upon the Java 2(TM) Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.2.2, specification that consists of the Java Language Specification, the Java Virtual Machine Specification, and the Java API Core Class Library Specification." There was a suggestion to do the standards work in stages (for example, JLS, JVM, API separately) versus all at once. The general consensus is to work on the whole J2SE as specified in the Terms of Reference. Tim Lindholm (Sun) was appointed project editor. Three working groups were set up: language (Pam Taylor, Share/Sterling), JVM (Rock Howard, Tower), API (Rex Jaeschke, Microsoft). These groups met during the morning of the second day to initiate their communication. Much of the work will be done by e-mail. Sun's lawyers prevented the submission of documents to ECMA. We hope this will be corrected shortly. Members of JSG who work for ECMA member companies should participate in this work through their member company. Other members of JSG, who want more information, should contact me directly. Bob Mathis Convener Java Study Group and SC22 Liaison to ECMA TC41. _____________________ end of SC22 N3030 ________________________________