SOME JAVA TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Anyone who wants to participate in 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. Inc's new
process for developing extensions to the Java platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). and API must sign
an agreement granting Sun rights to IP - or agree to license the
patented work on fair terms for use in implementing extensions - plus
$5,000 a year ($2,000 to non-profit organizations). The IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp-led
real-time team within the EmbeddedJava group is defining a starting
point for a Real-time Extension Specification. It will use the same set
of NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. requirements being used by Hewlett-Packard Co et al in their
alternative Real-Time Java Working Group. The Boundary-Scan API
extension Java expert group will work on enabling JavaCard to be useable
on all available JVMs. It is not expected that the Java API for
Boundary-Scan would ever run on a smart card, but it could be hosted on
an 8-bit or simpler microprocessor just like those used on smart cards,
the Xilinx Corp-led group says.
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