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<html><head><meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><meta NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0"><title>UnifiedPOS Frequently Asked Questions</title></head><body background="http://www.retail-info.com/ARTS/Images/ARTSback.JPG"><b><font FACE="Arial,Bold"><p ALIGN="CENTER">UnifiedPOS Technical Committee</p><u><p ALIGN="CENTER">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)</p></u><ol> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"> <li></b><strong>What is UnifiedPOS?</strong><br> </li> <font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>UnifiedPOS</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">is </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><u><strong>Unified</strong></u> <u><strong>P</strong></u></font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">oint </font><u><strong><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2">O</font></strong></u><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">f </font><u><strong><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2">S</font></strong></u><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">ervice. It is a retailer-driven initiative to produce an architectural specification that is both operating system independent and language neutral, for point of service devices used in the retail environment.</p> <p> </p> </font> <li><strong>What are the goals of UnifiedPOS?</strong><br> </li> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The goals of UnifiedPOS are to provide:</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>a)</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">Common device architecture that is globally applicable and extends across vendors, platforms, and retail formats.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>b)</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">Standards for application to device interfacing in an operating system independent and language neutral manner.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>c)</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">Reduced implementation costs for vendors to support multiple (i.e., both Windows COM and Java) platforms because they share the same architecture. This should produce speed to market for innovation.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>d)</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">An environment avoiding competition between standards while encouraging competition among implementations.</p> <p> </p> </font> <li><strong>Who is involved and how were they selected?</strong><br> </li> <p></font><font SIZE="3"><font face="Arial">Two formative meetings have been held that were initiated by retailers from NRF and ARTS.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">Invitations were extended to parties involved in the POS standards area.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">The organizations and companies represented are:</font></font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"></p> <pre></font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> ARTS Boscov’s Datafit Epson Fujitsu-ICL Systems Honey Baked Hams IBM Corporation JCPenney Microsoft Corporation Montgomery-Ward NCR Corporation NRF Research Computer Services Sears SUN Microsystems</pre> <p>The organizational structure is still in process.</p> <p> </p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"> <li><strong>How do others (Europe / Japan and other geographies) become involved?</strong></li></ol><ol> <p>The intention is for UnifiedPOS to be a worldwide initiative for all retail segments. Parties interested in</font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> becoming involved in UnifiedPOS should contact the UnifiedPOS Executive Committee through its WEB site at </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.unifiedpos.org">http://www.unifiedpos.org</a></font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">. Existing OPOS and JavaPOS™ 1 committees outside the U.S.A are urged to continue their work and are invited to agree locally how best to participate in the UnifiedPOS initiative.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1"><p>1 </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">JavaPOS is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p> </font><p> </p> <li type="disc" value="5"><strong>What is the relationship of UnifiedPOS to the existing JavaPOS and OPOS retail standards?</strong> </li></ol><dir> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The UnifiedPOS specification will formalize and document the underlying POS architecture, currently shared by both the JavaPOS and OPOS standards, in an operating system independent and platform neutral manner.</p> <p>Both the JavaPOS v1.4 and OPOS v1.4 standards will be "grandfathered in" as conformant platform mappings of the UnifiedPOS specification. JavaPOS will be recognized as the only UnifiedPOS-conformant operating system neutral Java language mapping. OPOS will be recognized as the only UnifiedPOS-conformant language neutral COM mapping. Additional UnifiedPOS mappings to platforms other than Java and COM will not be excluded however.</p> <p>Retail POS application developers and device service writers can therefore continue to write their code in conformance with one or both of the JavaPOS or OPOS specifications, and be confident that such code is also UnifiedPOS compliant.</p> <p> </p></dir></font><ol> <li type="disc" value="6"><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"><strong>What are the respective roles of the OPOS, JavaPOS, and UnifiedPOS committees in formalizing standards for new retail POS devices? </strong></font></li></ol><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"><dir> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>These roles are interrelated, and can best be illustrated by describing the approval cycle for a newretail POS device.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>a) Generic Device Proposal Submitted</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>A proposal for standardization of a new retail POS device can be made by any organization active in the retail device space to the OPOS, JavaPOS, or directly to the UnifiedPOS committees. Membership in ARTS and/or the NRF is not required.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>b) UnifiedPOS Proposal Created</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The receiving committee will formalize the proposal into UnifiedPOS format, and submit it for UnifiedPOS committee approval.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>c) UnifiedPOS Device Specification Issued</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The UnifiedPOS committee will review (and possibly modify) the generic device proposal, and publish a UnifiedPOS specification describing the POS architecture of the new device (including its properties, events and supported methods).</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>d) Platform-Specific Proposals Submitted</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>Both the OPOS and JavaPOS committees will take this UnifiedPOS specification, and convert it into respectively, a COM and a Java platform POS device standard.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>e) Platform-Specific Proposals Approved</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The UnifiedPOS committee will review (and possibly modify) all such OPOS and JavaPOS proposals, before granting approval. This step ensures that all new platform-specific device standards remain in conformance with the single common POS architecture maintained by UnifiedPOS.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>f) Platform-Specific Standards Issued</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>Once UnifiedPOS approval is granted, each of the respective (OPOS/JavaPOS) committees will publish a platform-specific POS device specification.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>g) Development Begins</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>With the issuance of the platform-specific device standard, then development of the retail applications that use the new device, and the device services that support it, can begin on the platform.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p> </p></dir></font><ol> <li type="disc" value="7"><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"><strong>Isn't there a danger that implementing this extensive procedure for device standardization will stifle innovation? </strong></font></li></ol><ol> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>On the contrary, those involved in the UnifiedPOS effort believe that the benefits that will be realized by retailers, hardware manufacturers, and software developers will spawn a significant effort to develop standards for ALL devices utilized in a retail point of service environment. In fact, it is anticipated that the UnifiedPOS procedures will accelerate the development of standards.</p> <p>Consider the following:<br> <strong><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2">a) Limited Number of New Device Proposals</font></strong></p> <p>All device types that are defined in the 1.4 versions of the JavaPOS and OPOS standards are "grandfathered" into UnifiedPOS, which means they require no additional effort to make them UnifiedPOS conformant.</p> <p>Current indications are that the number of POS device types which currently still await UnifiedPOS standardization are not great enough to introduce substantial delays into the approval cycle.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>b) Shared Committee Membership</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>The UnifiedPOS, JavaPOS and OPOS core committees are composed of members who in many cases serve on multiple committees. Such shared membership is expected to expedite the approval process considerably.</p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="2"><p><strong>c) Auto-Conversion</strong></p> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>Both the JavaPOS and OPOS committees will be investigating the possibility of using "scripting tools" to perform the bulk of the conversions from a UnifiedPOS device specification into a platform-specific standard. Such tools should also help expedite the new approval process.</p> <p> </p> </font><font FACE="Arial,Bold" SIZE="3"> <li type="disc" value="8"><strong>Who can submit proposals?</strong> </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><p>Anyone interested in standardized devices in the retail environment. This includes the OPOS and JavaPOS committees, retailers, device manufacturers, ISVs, etc. Also, membership in ARTS or NRF is not a requirement. Specifically,</p> </font></li></ol><blockquote> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><ul> <li>Organizations planning to work on a standard for new devices are requested to notify the UnifiedPOS committee. The UnifiedPOS committee will inform them of any other organizations working in the same area</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Organizations planning to work on a standard for new devices are requested to collaborate with other organizations working in the same area, so that any divergent views are resolved by the proposing organizations rather than being left for UnifiedPOS</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Organizations setting up working groups to work on a standard for new devices are requested to use UnifiedPOS to invite participation from other companies who may have expertise to contribute, but may be excluded from the organization’ s normal work by reason of geography or platform</li> <p> </p>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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