ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22/Java SG ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22/Java SG N 3-4 DATE: 1998-10-13 REPLACES: N/A DOC TYPE: Plain DOS Text TITLE: Conformance of Java standards SOURCE: Japan (Akio Kido) PROJECT: N/A STATUS: This document is circulated to National Bodies of JTC 1/SC22/Java SG for review and consideration at the October 1998 SC22/Java SG meeting in Tokyo. ACTION ID: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: P and L Members MEDIUM: DISKETTE NO.: NO. OF PAGES: 1 Text of contribution: The national body of Japan believes that the Java standards that will be submitted from SMI by using PAS procedure should clearly specify requirements for conformity and allowable options, parameters, extensions, and processor defined matters, if any. The allowable options. parameters, extensions, and processor defined matters need to be documented in the conformance document that will be provided by each implementer of Java standards conforming language processor, virtual machine, and class libraries. The national body of Japan also believes that the Java standards should specify the minimum set of locales with their description/behavior and internationalization related resources that are required to claim conformity to the Java standards. By specifying those items, - Each national body of ISO/IEC JTC1 or each industry can establish profiles of the Java standards in order to adapt the Java standards to a specific application area that may vary from a country to another and industry to industry. - Strictly conforming Java application can have no dependency with an implementation of Java standards or a class of the implementations. - The end users of Java conforming processor and applications can specify their requirements in their procurement specification in order to ensure application portability within their Java standard conforming environment.