scope:

J/XFS defines a standardized interface to all common financial devices which can be used by applications and applets written in the Java programming language. One of the reasons why these new banking applications are written in the Java language is that these programs are supposed to run on many different hardware platforms. One of the main obstacles in doing platform independent programming is accessing devices. One of the main goals of this standard is to allow access to banking devices in a 100% pure Java way on both thin and thick clients, e.g. on a network computer as well as in a Linux, WinNT, OS/2 or Unix workstation.