Here is the text of the message I recently sent to the JSR 255
Expert Group, in my capacity as Specification Lead.
Dear experts,
I'm sure that you saw some months ago that our work on JSR 255
will not be part of the JDK 7 release
(http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/). This
decision was made here at Sun in order that some of the higher
priority...