On 3 Mar 2011, at 23:41, Patrick McFarland wrote:

Maybe not the right place to point this out... but I'm glad Java

innovation isn't lead by Sunacle

http://bluxte.net/musings/2009/09/10/what-happened-jcache-aka-jsr-107

Read the second comment in that by Jon Stevens. Apparently Oracle

killed it because it was too awesome.

I was/am on the EG.  Oracle killed it because no one was doing anything.  Ping me offline if you want the full story.  :)

And no it wasn't awesome at all IMO.