REPEAT/ J Consortium Makes Reference Source for JEFF Generator and Dumper Publicly Available.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REPEATING... PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2002 JEFF Jeff boob who usually bungles Mutt’s schemes. [Comics: Berger, 48] See : Dimwittedness (TM): The First ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. Standard Based on Java(TM) Technology J Consortium announced today a decisive step in giving its community an immediate and free way to evaluate JEFF benefits and JEFF versions of Java applications A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. and libraries. The organization of Java programming vendors and interested parties has made publicly available a generator and dumper for ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) 20970 standard, JEFF. In order to include the widest community possible in a public evaluation of JEFF, the Consortium is providing downloadable versions of both the source code and binaries at http://www.j-consortium.org/jeffwg/index.shtml The ISO/IEC 20970 standard, JEFF, a highly efficient file format sponsored by J Consortium, provides a ready-to-execute format for object-oriented programs, and especially for Java programs. It is the first ISO standard based on Java(TM) technology. The generator and dumper J Consortium made publicly available today resulted from the Consortium's June 2002 Request for Proposal, from which it received several valuable submissions. After careful evaluation, the Consortium awarded the contract to Silicomp, a company that has significantly contributed to the specification of JEFF and has recognized experience in developing JEFF-based tools. The selected generator is written in the Java language and uses Java libraries in a way that makes this generator particularly suited for on-device embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if . "I am proud of the J Consortium's publication of the source code and binaries of the new JEFF generator and dumper," said Wendy Fong from Hewlett-Packard, chairman of J Consortium. "I'm especially happy that this is happening only a few weeks after the official publication of the ISO/IEC 20970 JEFF standard specification by ISO. And I'm grateful to Silicomp that originally developed this software and agreed to transfer its copyrights to J Consortium for public distribution." "The J Consortium is taking an important step in widening the knowledge and use of the JEFF format," said Jean-Paul Billon bil·lon n. 1. An alloy of gold or silver with a greater proportion of another metal, such as copper, used in making coins. 2. An alloy of silver with a high percentage of copper, used in making medals and tokens. from SchlumbergerSema, chairman of the JEFF Working Group. "The JEFF Working Group is very thankful to J Consortium and its chairman, Wendy Fong, for their continuous support in sponsoring the JEFF standard and now making possible the public availability of JEFF tools. We are also very grateful to Silicomp and the other companies that answered our RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. . The JEFF Working group, among which are the initial authors of the published tools, will maintain and update the tools in order to provide an accurate reference implementation fully compliant with ISO/IEC 20970 specification and its future evolutions." The JEFF standard drastically cuts the requirements for run-time memory and reduces the storage of programs to half the usual class file format, without any compression. Already, product vendors are hailing JEFF as the key factor for enabling a broad deployment of object-oriented and in particular Java technologies to small devices such as PDAs, cellular phones, set-top-boxes, point-of-sale electronic fund transfer terminals, etc. To learn more about JEFF, see J Consortium's list of press releases http://www.j-consortium.org/press.releases/index.shtml More information is also on the Web page on the JEFF Working Group. This is also where the JEFF Generator and Dumper sources and binaries as well as presentations of JEFF can be freely downloaded: http://www.j-consortium.org/jeffwg/index.shtml To purchase the standard specification in electronic format for US $80 or as a hardcopy for US $90, visit the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. website at http://www.ansi.org/public/std_info.html About J Consortium, Inc. J Consortium is an independent organization comprised of companies and individuals world-wide dedicated to accelerating the use of Java technologies in real-time and embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. . Members of the open forum seek to provide a vendor-neutral technical framework ensuring the ability for Java-based development of soft and hard real-time applications. From its seven founding companies, the organization has now grown to more than 150 members, with new members being added all the time. The working groups set up within the J Consortium build APIs addressing the particular needs of individual niche market A niche market also known as a target market is a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector. By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. segments. To learn more about J Consortium activities, see http://www.j-consortium.org. J Consortium and the J Consortium logo are trademarks or service marks, or registered trademarks and service marks, of J Consortium, Inc., in the U.S. and a trademark in other countries. JEFF is a trademark of J Consortium, Inc. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. in the U.S.A. and other countries. |
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