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Chapter 6 PC-POS System Development
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Software and Manuals
The following software and manuals are prepared for developing applications.
Development kit
The following development kits are provided to support application development. As these are not included in
the product, they must be downloaded before use.
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OLE technology developed by Microsoft divides software into part blocks. The OPOS driver is presupposed to be
used with a development environment such as Visual Basic, unlike ordinary Windows drivers. It is not a driver to
be used for printing from commercial applications.
Software
Overview
EPSON OPOS ADK
This OCX driver can control POS peripherals using OLE tech-
nology *. Because controlling POS peripherals with original
commands is not required on the application side, efficient
system development is possible.
EPSON OPOS ADK for .NET
OPOS ADK for .NET allows you to develop applications that
are compatible with Microsoft POS for .NET. When develop-
ing applications, use a separate development environment
such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
EPSON JavaPOS ADK
JavaPOS is the standard specification which defines an
architecture and device interface (API) to access various
POS devices from a Java based system. Using JavaPOS stan-
dard API allows control with Java based applications of
func-tions inherent to each device. A flexible design with
Java language and JavaPOS enables many different types of
computer systems, such as stand alone or network configu-
ration, to use a same application. You can use JavaPOS to
build applications and drivers independently of platforms.
This allows flexible configurations using thin clients to meet
the system requirements.
