JEE 6 has been approved!

See the ballot here: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5025

ASF voted against the proposal. The comment ASF gave is:

"The Apache Software Foundation's vote is based on the point of view that this spec lead - Sun - is in violation of the JSPA

http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html

and therefore shouldn't be allowed to lead other JSRs until the above matter is resolved.

This vote is not a comment on the technical merits of the JSR.  If not for the issue of the spec lead, the ASF would have otherwise voted "yes".

I read http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html. It seems the dispute originates from license of JCK (Java Compatibility Kit) which is needed to demonstrate compatibility of Java SE spec. Also IBM voted for the proposal but stated that it wants an open licensing model, etc. Interesting relationships among those vendors and foundations.

The problem has been there for several years, and it still has not been solved.