James Gosling attended the first ever PayPal developer conference, Innovate09, where Sun VP Eric Kleinannounced and demoed the new integration of the PayPal X platform with the Java Store. Sun is a platinum sponsor of the conference (which is subtitled "the intersection of ideas and money"). Keynote speakers included Tim O'Reilly, eBay CEO John Donahue, and PayPal president Scott Thompson.
You'd have to say that PayPal has come a long way, to be holding a developer conference. At its most basic level, PayPal lets you open an account, embed a handful of lines of script into a web page, and you've suddenly got a working storefront. But clearly, PayPal has grown far beyond that. The conference includes two days of sessions, and six different tracks:
But, getting back to the Java Store: Eric's announcement talked about "an alliance with PayPal to support application payment in the Java Store Beta and enhancements to the beta user experience." Sun's formal announcement says:
Sun now supports for-fee applications submitted by developers for distribution in the Java Store Beta. Developers can price their offering anywhere from $1.99 to $200.00 (USD) and select the license rights they wish to apply to their application. Developers will receive 70 percent of any for-fee application sold through the Java Store Beta. Utilizing the new Adaptive Payment API from PayPal, consumers can authorize the Java Store Beta to bill against their PayPal account so they can simply click the "Buy" button and never have to leave the store. In addition, when a customer makes a payment in the Java Store Beta, the application owner also gets paid at the time of the purchase. This way, the developer immediately receives the revenue and knows exactly how many people have purchased their application.
In his post, James notes:
It always amazes me how complex it is to deal with all the details of global finance. And even so, the store today only handles US issues. But the framework is in place to go global as fast as the lawyers and accountants can work through the details - but it'll take a while. There's a new client application for shopping in the store, and a new warehouse site for developers to upload products.
The U.S.-only restriction is still in place, but that is being worked on as well. Also, Linux is still not an officially supported platform -- although the snazzy new client James mentions seems to run fine on the Gentoo Linux desktop on which I'm composing this post.
James asks developers to check out the updated Store and "let us know what you think: we'd like to get it out of beta and do a real large scale consumer launch as soon as we can."
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