JavaPOS FAQ (1)
It was recognized early on that the emergence of the Java language on the computing scene offered several major advantages to the developers of retail applications.?
在Java语言出现在计算机领域的早期,它在零售系统的开发中所能提供的若干主要优点就已经被注意到。
The JavaPOS (Java for Point Of Sale) standard committee was formed by a collection of retail vendors and end users to examine the ways in which these Java advantages could best be exploited in the retail environment.
JavaPOS (服务于零售点的Java) 标准协会由一群零售供应商和最终用户组成,其负责确定Java的优点能够被最佳地导入到零售环境中。
The
original JavaPOS programming standard (v1.2) was the end result of ten
months of effort by this committee. It was followed by JavaPOS v1.3,
which defined Java interfaces for three additional retail POS devices
(Fiscal Printer, PIN Pad and Remote Order Display), and JavaPOS v1.4,
which added the
Credit Authorization Terminal (CAT) interface requested by Japanese retailers.