All of us share a passion for JSR-299 and the change it brought to Java EE 6. If you are interested in showing your appreciation, perhaps you would be willing to nominate Gavin as a star spec lead for working in a transparent and collaborative way to create this standard. This specification is especially unique because Gavin and the JSR-299 EG selected the use of the Apache License for both the implementation and the TCK, a clear commitment to openness. Details here: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/2010StarSpecLeadNominations While you are thinking about it, I encourage you to consider nominating Emmanuel Bernard for JSR-303 (Bean Validation) as well. Emmanuel worked entirely in the open (forums, spec draft, blogs) and also selected the ASL for the implementation and TCK. I believe that both Gavin and Emmanuel are very deserving of this award and I certainly hope that they are recognized for their leadership. Cheers, -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen