My favourite Sun Employee (harold.ogle@SUN.COM) is sending me loads of mails again.  Some of the ones actually resulted in a mental note:

• [final] JSR38 : Application Installation API Specification (might be something to do for our xreporter)
• [proposal] JSR198 : A Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments (makes me wonder how it will (ever) fit in to the SWT move at eclipse)
• [proposal] JSR199 : Java^TM Compiler API (makes me hope that runtime compilation will become more of a commodity)

(If you want Harold to mail you too about these, just follow the instructions at: http://jcp.org/en/participation/mail)