One of the things I despise about academia is the need (and sometimes the arrogance to) give every project/idea/framework, no matter its size or importance, some silly acronym.

This is a people thing, not an academia thing.

This really is an unfortunate naming collision.

You can't expect some java developers to know about any technology which interacts with the real world can you? /sarcasm

Actually, I consider myself primarily a Java developer... and I wrote a pretty comprehensive GPS library in Java a while back (for using a raw GPS chip over a serial UART connection for embedded devices).