The Java language and platform's specification and certification body will now combine the Executive Committees (EC) supervising Java Standard Edition (SE), Java Enterprise Edition (EE), and Java Micro Edition (ME).

The Java Community Process (JCP) will now bring these entitles into a single body with the aim of reducing the total number of committee members involved at any one time.

Java Specification Request (JSR) JSR 355 has stipulated that the existing two-to-one ratio of ratified-to-elected seats will be maintained. On the merged EC, neither Oracle nor any other member may hold more than one seat.

Reports suggest that JCP chair Patrick Curran sees sense in this move because Java is, essentially, just one single platform that comes in "three flavors" for a variety of use cases and environments.

According to the JCP Executive Committee, "Changes in the Java ME market, and the increasing maturity and consolidation of the Java market generally, suggests that some rebalancing between Java ME and the other platforms, together with a modest reduction in the total number of EC members, would be appropriate. Looking forward, the expected convergence between Java ME and Java SE is likely to render the current division into two separate ECs increasingly irrelevant. Since Java is One Platform, it ought to be overseen by a single Executive Committee."

As the Executive Committees of the JCP now guide what seems to be continually referred to as "the evolution of Java", a new raft of Java Specification Requests will now be developed and these must be approved from draft, through maintenance revision stages and onward to release. The impact of the new structure of the organizational committee remains to be seen.