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Overview and Status Curtiss Monroe, NCR JavaPOS Work Group Founding Companies

J AVA POS TM Java for POS Devices. Overview and Status Curtiss Monroe, NCR JavaPOS Work Group Founding Companies. Agenda. Mission and Goals Work Sessions and Participation Accomplishments Architecture Deliverables Next Steps Dependencies and Issues Summary.

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Overview and Status Curtiss Monroe, NCR JavaPOS Work Group Founding Companies

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  1. JAVAPOSTMJava for POS Devices Overview and Status Curtiss Monroe, NCR JavaPOS Work Group Founding Companies

  2. Agenda • Mission and Goals • Work Sessions and Participation • Accomplishments • Architecture • Deliverables • Next Steps • Dependencies and Issues • Summary

  3. Mission of the JavaPOS Committee Produce a Retail Industry standard for a Point-Of-Sale I/O device subsystem that supports pure Java applications and leverages the OPOS standard.

  4. Goals Our mission results in the following goals: • Define an architecture for POS device access from Java applications. • Define a set of POS device interfaces (APIs). • Derive the Java APIs from OPOS. • The JavaPOS APIs are platform independent but specific to the Java programming language.

  5. Work Sessions, 1997 • Formation Meeting : April 3. • Consortium of NRF members, • plus IBM, NCR, and Sun. • JPOS-1 : April 29-30, in Raleigh. • JPOS-2 : June 9-12, in Palo Alto. • JPOS-3 : August 11-13, in Atlanta. • JPOS-4 : September 14-16, in Raleigh. • JPOS-5 : October 27-30, in Palo Alto.

  6. Industry Participation • 12 companies providing ongoing technical input, representing: • Retailers • Software Vendors • Retail Hardware / Software Vendors • Sun / JavaSoft • 20 - 25 representatives have attended each of the JPOS sessions. • Other companies have expressed interest in U.S. and internationally.

  7. Accomplishments • White Paper available. • Draft specification in public review period. • Architecture. • APIs for 14 POS devices. • “JavaPOS” trademark in place. • See web site… http://www.javapos.com/

  8. Architecture POS Application JavaPOSAPIs JavaPOSDevice JavaPOS DeviceControl JavaPOS Device Service Physical (or Logical)Device

  9. Architecture Details Java Device Interface POS Application JavaPOSAPIs JavaSoft Components JavaPOSDevice JavaPOS DeviceControl Service Loader JavaPOS Device Service System Database JDK 1.2 Comm Port API Serial Driver ParallelDriver USB Proprietary Physical (or Logical)Device

  10. Architecture POS Application JavaPOSAPIs JavaPOSDevice JavaPOS DeviceControl JavaPOS Device Service Physical (or Logical)Device • In addition to the blockdiagram architecture… • The following areas wereaddressed and defined: • API mapping rules (fromOPOS to JavaPOS). • Versioning (compatibility rules). • Thread handling. • Event management. • Interfaces to Java Development Kit.

  11. Deliverables • Documentation: • JavaPOS Programming Guide. • JavaPOS White Paper. • All documentation is in PDF format. Read with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. • Java Files (at OPOS Release 1.2 level): • Device Control interface files. • Device Service interface files. • Constants. • Sample Device Control classes.

  12. Next Steps, 1998 • In progress : Programming Guide public review period. • Published to web 1997/12/20. • End of public review period : February 6. • JPOS-6 Meeting: February 16 - 18. • Initial release as JavaPOS 1.2 : March 13. • Unless level of rework due to public feedback is greater than anticipated.

  13. Future Steps, 1998 • Endorsement and/or administration by a standards body. • Expansion with additional … • Companies. • International input.

  14. Dependencies • Sun/JavaSoft to deliver the following: • Java Communications API (JDK 1.2). • Java System Database (future). • Java Service Loader (future). • Needed for deployment of fully compliant JavaPOS implementations. • USB support currently undefined.

  15. Issues • Device Control implementations. • Only one Device Control implementation is needed for any Device Service of its class, but … • The JavaPOS organizational structure precludes implementation and support of software components. • Committee’s sample Controls can be verified by vendor and delivered. • Initial deployment. • Until Sun/JavaSoft deliverables are available, Device Controls and Services may have have interoperability variations. • No API impacts at the Application.

  16. Summary and Call to Action POS Application JavaPOSAPIs JavaPOSDevice JavaPOS DeviceControl JavaPOS Device Service Physical (or Logical)Device • Summary: • JavaPOS delivers POS deviceaccessibility to Java applications. • Relationship to OPOS fosters broadsupport and device coverage. • Technology demonstrations at this show. • Get involved… see www.javapos.com • Download and review the Programming Guide. • Send us your comments and corrections. • Watch for additional happenings.

  17. POS Application JavaPOSAPIs JavaPOS Work Group Founding Companies JavaPOSDevice JavaPOS DeviceControl JavaPOS Device Service Physical (or Logical)Device

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