Java and the PAS process

Gary S Robinson

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1998)

Anyone who thinks standards just happen and the job of creating standards is easy, fun, and a chance to travel to fun places should have had the chance to help standardize Java. As the Sun Microsystems director of standards, I was given the "opportunity" of responding to the market's (users, providers, partners, competitors) request to make Java a standard. Everyone wanted it, and Java was already well documented, well known, and being tested and deployed all over the world.