Java community process

The Java Community Process (JCP) allows interested parties to assist in developing standard technical specification for Java technology. Both companies and inpiduals can become members of the JCP and contribute to any technical specification they may be interested in. Each Java EE API specification is developed as part of a Java Specification Request (JSR). Each JSR is assigned a unique number. JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.3 is developed as JSR 372, for instance.

Since Java EE is developed under the JCP, no one company has complete control over the Java EE specification, since, as mentioned before, the JCP is available to the Java community at large, both software vendors and interested inpiduals.

Different JCP members have different interests, and contribute to different Java EE specifications; the end result is that Java EE is jointly developed by various members of the Java community.