"I would like to see people with piercings doing Java programming," he said.

With the , Oracle now is the steward of numerous Java innovations and processes. Oracle officials at the conference Wednesday fielded questions on a variety of issues pertaining to Java, including the direction of the much-maligned JCP (Java Community Process) for amending official Java specifications. A day earlier at EclipseCon, two of the panelists, Kaul and Oracle Vice President Steve Harris, for Java and charted goals for the Java community.

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"The JCP and Java overall, we feel needs to move faster, be more agile, be more flexible," Harris said. "To the extent the JCP has been the primary vehicle to standardize Java and move it forward, I think it needs to move forward more quickly."

The community and structure around the JCP must "be tweaked and pushed to enable that to happen" and Oracle is committed to doing this, Harris said.