News and views from members of the Java team at Oracle
Donald Smith
Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Vice President of Product Management for Oracle, where he runs Java SE Product Management.
He brings global enterprise software experience, ranging from startups through Fortune 500 companies. Donald has decades of experience speaking about Java, open source, community development, business models, business integration and software development politics at conferences and events worldwide.
Donald’s background includes helping develop the first commercially-successful Object-Relational Mapping products for Smalltalk and Java, transitioning to Java EE Application Servers, and driving the Eclipse Foundation through years of rapid growth where he still sits on the IP Advisory Committee.
Posts
- Transitioning Java to More Frequent Security Updates
- Announcing the Oracle Java Verified Portfolio including Helidon and reintroduction of JavaFX Commercial Support
- AI World: Everything You Need to Know About AI and the Java Platform
- Detaching GraalVM from the Java Ecosystem Train
- Java SE Spring 2024 Roadmap Update
- Introducing the Java SE Subscription Enterprise Performance Pack
- Java SE 7 End of Extended Support in July 2022
- Introducing the Free Java License
- Moving the JDK to a Two Year LTS Cadence
- The art of long-term support and what LTS means for the Java ecosystem
- Update on 64-bit ARM Support for Oracle OpenJDK and Oracle JDK
- Java Client Roadmap Updates
- The OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement (OCTLA)
- End of Public Updates is a Process, not an Event
- Oracle JDK Releases for Java 11 and Later
- Update and FAQ on the Java SE Release Cadence

