BONDI API specifications

The final release of version 1.1 cements over six months of industry feedback on the previous version 1.01 and significantly improves the specifications to enable commercial implementations of BONDI to prosper during 2010. A key feature of the 1.1 release is its compliance to the W3C Widgets: Packaging and Compliance specification. The new version also improves the usability of the BONDI security mechanisms and provides enhancements to a range of the BONDI APIs. As a W3C member and MWI sponsor, OMTP has already submitted preliminary versions of BONDI into W3C.

This specification defines the APIs developed in the BONDI initiative. The main target of Bondi to offer a set of common APIs to developers so that they do not need to use different APIs for accessing the same capability on different devices and platforms.

This version represents the consensus of the BONDI interfaces group and has been built on the BONDI Approved Release 1.0. It includes errata and minor fixes following the Approved Release of 1.0.

This version has been built upon the BONDI Approved Release 1.01. It adds new functionality and provides more clarity on some APIs.