The Web Beans JSR was approved unanimously by the JCP executive committee. You can read the proposal here:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
We've already received a bunch of expert nominations from companies and individuals, and so I'm sure we'll be able to form a very talented expert group over the next few weeks. If you're interested, the nomination form is here:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/egnom?id=299
This is the first time JBoss (or even Red Hat) has led a JSR, so we are very excited about this opportunity to serve the Java EE community!