Project Proposal: Kona

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/01/2015 15:15, Riaz Aimandi wrote:
> I’d like to discuss the creation of the Kona Project with myself (Riaz Aimandi) as the Lead and the Core Libraries group as the sponsoring group.
>
> This project would define and implement Java APIs for networking technologies and protocols that are commonly used in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. The primary goal of the project would be to define APIs that can be efficiently implemented and used on embedded devices. These APIs would be defined in such a way that they could be potentially used with Java ME, although the project would initially focus on the implementation for Java SE.
>
> The first protocol that will be included in this project is Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) and is expected to be contributed by ARM. It should have support for UDP connector with Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) authentication handled outside of the CoAP APIs.
This seems a worthy project and good to see that the collaboration is 
proposed to be done as a project in OpenJDK.

The Bylaws require that it be supported by at least one Group Lead so I 
would like to offer support for this project with the Core Libraries 
group as sponsor.

-Alan.