Brief History
To date, the following companies among others have been represented at JavaPOS meetings: JCPenny, Sears, Home Depot, NCR, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Epson, Wincor Nixdorf, Fujitsu, Datafit, MGV, Ultimate Technology, RCS, Triversity, 360Commerce, Star Micronics, BearingPoint and TPG.
Year 2006
| January | JavaPOS v1.10 Device Controls are released. |
Year 2005
| November | UnifiedPOS specification v1.10 is released. JavaPOS mapping of v1.10 is in Appendix B |
| August | JavaPOS 29 is held in Redmond, Washington |
| May | JavaPOS 28 is held in Berlin |
| March | JavaPOS v1.9 Device Controls are released. |
| February | JavaPOS 27 is held in Atlanta |
| January | UnifiedPOS specification v1.9 is released. JavaPOS mapping of v1.9 is in Appendix B |
Year 2004
| December | JavaPOS v1.8 Device Controls are updated to v1.8.2 |
| September | JavaPOS 26 is held in San Diego |
| June | - JavaPOS 25 is held in Washington D.C. - JavaPOS v1.8 Device Controls are released. |
| March | JavaPOS 24 is held in Tokyo. |
| February | UnifiedPOS specification v1.8 is released. JavaPOS mapping of v1.8 is in Appendix B. |
| January | JavaPOS v1.7 Device Controls are updated to v1.7.2 Sample JavaPOS application code now available |
Year 2003
| September | JavaPOS-23 is held in Chicago |
| June | JavaPOS-22 is held in Washington DC |
| March | JavaPOS-21 is held in San Jose California JavaPOS 1.7 Japanese version is now available |
| February | Updates to JavaPOS V1.7 Device Controls are released |
Year 2002
| November | JavaPOS-20 is held in Austin Texas |
| August | JavaPOS v1.7 specification is released |
| JavaPOS-19 is held in San Diego |
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| June | JavaPOS v1.7 Device Controls are released |
| April | JavaPOS-18 is held in Atlanta |
| January | JavaPOS-17 is held in Tampa Florida |
Year 2001
| August 28 | JavaPOS-16 is held at the NRF HQ in Washington DC |
| August 1 | JavaPOS v1.6 Device Controls are released. |
| July 30 | JavaPOS v1.6 standard is released. |
| June 1 | Source Code for Version 2.0 of the Java Configuration Loader is released (JCL 2.0.0 RC2). See JCL FAQ |
| May 22 | JavaPOS-15 is held in Longbeach California with Epson hosting. |
| March 6 | JavaPOS-Japan joins "Retail Tech Japan 2001" exhibiting both Windows and Linux based JavaPOS solutions. |
| February 22-23 | JavaPOS-14 is held in Washington DC with the NRF hosting. |
Year 2000
| December 1 | JavaPOS Technical Seminar #2 completed. The 35 companies represented included new members Fujitsu, NEC, JBCC, RSI and Star Micronics. |
| October 6 | JavaPOS v1.5 standard released for comments. |
| April 29 | Source code for the Java Configuration Loader (JCL) is released. See JCL FAQ |
| April 14-15 | JavaPOS-13 is held in Chicago with IBM hosting. |
| March 2 | Publication of the Java Configuration Loader (JCL) API, for defining configuration, binding and loading of JavaPOS Device Services. This API supercedes the earlier JSL/JSD API's within the JavaPOS standard. |
| January 19 | JavaPOS was recognized as the official Java platform mapping of the UnifiedPOS standard of the National Retail Federation (NRF). |
| January 16-17 | JavaPOS-12 was held in New York City, with the National Retail Federation (NRF) hosting. |
Year 1999
| July 3 | Java Device Driver Kit FCS Candidate 2 Release made available. |
| June 7-10 | JavaPOS-11 was held in Chicago with Sears hosting. |
| March 30 | JavaPOS v1.4 standard released for comments. |
| February 10-12 | JavaPOS-10 was held in Dallas with J.C. Penny hosting. |
Year 1998
| November 6 | JavaPOS v1.3 standard released for comments. |
| October 26-28 | JavaPOS-9 was held in Chicago with Sears hosting. |
| August 10-12 | JavaPOS-8 was held in Palo Alto with Sun hosting. |
| April 20-22 | JavaPOS-7 was held in Houston with Telxon hosting. |
| March 28 | JavaPOS v1.2 standard released. |
| February 2-6 | JavaPOS-6 was held in San Deigo with ICL/Fujitsu hosting. |
Year 1997
| December 24 | The JavaPOS whitepaper is published in its updated form. |
| December 22 | JavaPOS Guide for Application and Device Programmers is published for public review. |
| December 5 | Prototype version of JavaPOS whitepaper is published. |
| October 27-30 | JavaPOS-5 was held in Palo Alto, with Sun hosting. |
| September 16-18 | JavaPOS-4 was held in Raleigh, with IBM hosting. |
| August 11-13 | JavaPOS-3 was held in Atlanta, with NCR hosting. |
| June 9-12 | JavaPOS-2 was held in Palo Alto, with Sun hosting. |
| April 29-30 | The first industry-wide meeting, JavaPOS-1, was held in Raleigh, with IBM hosting. |
| April 2 | The JavaPOS formation meeting was held in Atlanta, with IBM and NCR attending. |
For more information, see the JavaPOS FAQ and JavaPOS Whitepaper.
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