JavaPOS

JavaPOS or Java for Point of Sale is an application interface, written in Java, to provide common access to POS peripherial devices. The advantages are reduces POS Terminal costs, platform independence, reduced administrative costs.

Historical Background

JavaPOS was initiated by SUN Microsystems, IBM, and NCR to help integrate POS hardware into applications for the Windows™ family of operating systems. OPOS uses COM technology, and is therefore language independent.

The first JavaPOS meeting was convened in April, 1997. The first production release, 1.2, was made in March, 1998. Its final release, 1.6, was in July 2001. Beginning with release 1.7, the JavaPOS committee no longer releases an implementation-specific document. The UnifiedPOS document has added implementation information into an appendix.

In order to encourage adoption of the standard, the interface was based on the already existing OPOS standard.