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Java could play a bigger part in networking for the Internet of things. The Kona Project, proposed on openjdk.java.net this week, would define and implement Java APIs for networking technologies and protocols commonly used in IoT.

"The primary goal of the project would be to define APIs that can be efficiently implemented and used on embedded devices," said Oracle official Riaz Aimandi in a posting to the openjdk mailing list. "These APIs would be defined in such a way that they could be potentially used with Java ME (Micro Edition), although the project would initially focus on the implementation for Java SE (Standard Edition)." Current plans call for creating the project outside of the Java Community Process, the formal process for amending official Java specifications.

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