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Sun and Real Time Java Group to meet to discuss standards
But will the mid-January meeting in San Diego result in a move forward in the Java standards-development process?
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"There are still a lot of questions about licensing, when you pay Sun royalties, intellectual property rights, and so forth, that people still don't have a comfort level with," Khavar said.
Sun said the new Community Source licensing model allows companies to modify and share Java source code without charge or intervention from Sun -- and pay Sun only when they sell products based on the modified code. Sun is also allowing third parties to work on committees charged with developing Java API specifications for certain areas such as real-time applications.
But Sun is going to have a lot of explaining to do. Although the working group does not want to see Java-related technology split up among various vendors factions, if Sun's new proposal does not satisfy members of the group they will continue to pursue establishing Java standards outside of Sun's new scheme. The working group one month ago tried to get the National Committee for Information Technology Standardization (NCITS) to examine its effort in hope of gaining the body's support, and NCITS has responded by saying it would examine the general issue of embedded real-time standards.
"Currently the vast majority of the companies in the real-time working group prefer to continue going the way they're heading, which is the proposal they made to NCITS ... to move forward under a proven vendor-neutral standards organization," HP's Bell said.
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