[headsup] JSR 170 v0.8 Community Review

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

I'm happy to announce that after years of work, the JSR 170 expert  
group has been released the JSR 170 v0.8 for community review. After a  
period of inactivity, I'm back in that expert group (and pushed a  
little for this community review to happen sooner rather than later,  
but didn't find any obstacles since they are eager to get feedback from  
a wider community).

There are currently weaknesses in XML support (expecially whitespace  
and namespaces) but the EG is fully committed to fix those before 1.0

You should be able to find the spec here:

http://www.jcp.org/en/eg/download/jsr170-v0.8-community- 
draft.zip?id=170&fileId=1121
Feel free to send (costructive) comments on the API either publicly on  
this list or privately to me. I'll make sure they arrive to the expert  
group.

Thanks.

--
Stefano.