Jason replied to my posting about the JCP. I like the way that he titled the post, "Ted Leung on organic specs", except for the spec word. The problem is that we have too many specs. I'd like to see the JCP become much more resistant to standardizing stuff, but I doubt that's going to happen. If you think that having the JDK/standardized API set grow organically, then what we can start to do is just ignore the results of the JCP and continue to develop alternatives and use the leverage of blogosphere as a way to help people realize that the blessing of the JCP is often a recipe for poor technology. Just because the JCP and the vendors are pushing the "standards" doesn't mean that we have to use them. But we do need away of protecting ourselves from vendor lockin.