Agilent and Sun Form Java Community for Open-Source Development

Agilent Technologies and Sun Microsystems have formed a new Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control (JDDAC) java.net community, an open-source forum for development of Java applications and libraries for wide-area distributed sensors and controls. Sun Microsystems is the developer of the Java technology platform.



JDDAC's objective is to share information and encourage development of Java applications for industrial control, building automation, industrial security, utilities management, robotics, mobile communications, and distributed sensor and control networks. JDDAC will create the first Java implementations of technologies for distributed sensors and actuators based on the IEEE 1451 and IEEE 1588 standards supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies. Agilent Laboratories is conducting extensive research on distributed wide-area sensor networks using wireless networking built on these standards. http://www.community.java.net/jddac