Editing CEN/XFS (section)

== J/XFS ==
J/XFS is an alternative [[API]] to CEN/XFS (which is [[Windows]] specific) and also to Xpeak (which is Operating System independent, based on XML messages). J/XFS is written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] with the objective to provide a [[Computing platform|platform]] agnostic [[client-server architecture]] for financial applications, especially [[peripheral device]]s used in the financial industry such as [[EFTPOS]] terminals and [[Automated teller machine|ATM]]s.

With the move to a more standardized software base, financial institutions have been increasingly interested in the ability to pick and choose the application programs that drive their equipment. J/XFS provides a common [[Object-oriented programming|Object Oriented]] API between a pure Java application and a wide range of financial devices, providing a layer of separation between application and device logic that can be implemented using a native J/XFS API or wrapping an existing implementation in [[JavaPOS]] or CEN/XFS.

J/XFS was developed by the companies [[De La Rue]], [[IBM]], [[NCR Corporation|NCR]], [[Wincor Nixdorf]] and [[Sun Microsystems]] and is now hosted, monitored and maintained by the [[European Committee for Standardization]], CEN.