Who needs Standards... Patrick Curran: Chair, Java Community Process - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Who needs Standards... Patrick Curran: Chair, Java Community Process (patrick@jcp.org) http://jcp.org

In an Open-Source world?

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Language http://jcp.org 4

Writing http://jcp.org 5

Number systems http://jcp.org 6

Currency http://jcp.org 7

A Modest Proposal http://jcp.org 8

Time... http://jcp.org 9

And space http://jcp.org 10

Navigation http://jcp.org 11

Maps r http://jcp.org 12

Weights... http://jcp.org 13

and Measures http://jcp.org 14

Guilds http://jcp.org 15

Hallmarks http://jcp.org 16

Printing http://jcp.org 17

Food... r http://jcp.org 18

And drugs http://jcp.org 19

Health... r http://jcp.org 20

And safety http://jcp.org 21

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Commerce http://jcp.org 23

Industry http://jcp.org 24

Machine tools http://jcp.org 25

Screws and threads http://jcp.org 26

Steam engines http://jcp.org 27

Railways http://jcp.org 28

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Interchangeable parts http://jcp.org 30

Mass production http://jcp.org 31

Wartime http://jcp.org 32

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Difference Engine http://jcp.org 34

Jacquard loom http://jcp.org 35

Electricity http://jcp.org 36

Telegraph http://jcp.org 37

Telephone http://jcp.org 38

Cellphones http://jcp.org 39

Telecommunications http://jcp.org 40

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Beer http://jcp.org 42

Clothing http://jcp.org 43

Traffic http://jcp.org 44

Shipping http://jcp.org 45

Postage http://www.upu.int/ http://jcp.org 46

Music ISO 16:1975 Acoustics -- Standard tuning frequency (Standard musical pitch) http://jcp.org 47

Color http://www.color.org http://jcp.org 48

Chocolate WHO/FAO: Codex Alimentarius Official Standard for Chocolate http://jcp.org 49

Sport http://www.lords.org/laws-and-spirit/laws-of-cricket/laws/ http://jcp.org 50

Medicine Chronic rheumatic heart diseases I05: Rheumatic mitral valve diseases Includes: conditions classifiable to 105.0 and 105.2-105.9, whether specified as rheumatic or not Excludes: when specified as nonrheumatic I05.0: Mitral stenosis Mitral (valve) obstruction (rheumatic) I05.1: Rheumatic mitral insufficiency Rheumatic mitral ● Incompetence ● Regurgitation I05.2: Mitral stenosis with insufficiency Mitral stenosis with incompetence or regurgitation I05.8:Other mitral valve diseases Mitral (valve) failure I05.9: Mitral valve disease, unspecified Mitral (valve) disorder (chronic) NOS From the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases http://jcp.org 51

Shopping http://jcp.org 52

Books http://jcp.org 53

Home entertainment http://jcp.org 54

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Baltimore, 1904 http://jcp.org 56

Mars orbiter, 1999 http://jcp.org 57

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The $64,000 question... http://jcp.org 59

Are we Artisans... http://jcp.org 60

Or engineers? http://jcp.org 61

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Standards make the world go round http://jcp.org 63

Languages & protocols http://jcp.org 64

Interfaces http://jcp.org 65

Specifications http://jcp.org 66

Blueprints http://jcp.org 67

Certification http://jcp.org 68

Vendor lock-in http://jcp.org 69

Industrial-strength systems http://jcp.org 70

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Java SE http://jcp.org 72

Java ME http://jcp.org 73

Java EE http://jcp.org 74

The Java Community Process http://jcp.org 75

Organization http://jcp.org 76

Deliverables • Specification Can you build an Is the Specification Implementation? unambiguous? Conformance Reference Test Suite Implementation Is the Test Suite correct? Does the RI conform? http://jcp.org 77

Deliverables http://jcp.org 78

The JSR development cycle http://jcp.org 79

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Open Source http://jcp.org 81

Hmmm... • L inux – POSIX (IEEE 1003, ISO/IEC 9945) – Single UNIX Specification (SUS) – Linux Standard Base • A pache – HTTP, HTML, XHTML, authentication – http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/relevant_standards.html • M ySQL – ANSI/ISO SQL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/compatibility.html • P HP – ??? (but see Fortran, COBOL, C, C++. Java, C#...) http://jcp.org 82

Agility http://jcp.org 83

Teamwork http://jcp.org 84

Access http://jcp.org 85

Transparency http://jcp.org 86

Open Source AND Open Standards http://jcp.org 87

Solutions for everyone http://jcp.org 88

Thank you! http://jcp.org 89

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