Oracle submits specs for Java 7 and 8 An Oracle official detailed on Tuesday the submissions of upcoming Java releases to the formal specification process, including versions 7 and 8 of Java’s standard edition. The technologies under consideration have been formulated as JSR (Java Specification Requests) for consideration by the Java Community Process, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle’s Java platform group, said in a blog post: “These JSRs have been a long time coming. They’re now — finally — on the JCP ballot for approval; results should be available in two weeks.” ..

Registrar getting lots of commercial submissions — but few good ones. After critics panned Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials (again) this year, the company went to the marketing playbook and created a contest for customers to make their own commercials.