San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks and Apogee Software today announced that Apogee's Aphelion Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will be offered to LynuxWorks' customers deploying Java applications on the BlueCat Linux or LynxOS RTOS operating systems.

The IDE gives developers access to state-of-the-art Java technology and translates to time and cost savings for OEMs who want application portability and code reuse options as they develop and manage product life cycles.

Aphelion is a comprehensive IDE for developing high-performance embedded Java and Java/C/C++ applications with deployment on Sun's Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) Java2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Virtual Machines.

Developed for embedded systems, Aphelion removes the obstacles hindering the use of Java for embedded systems such as: large run-time footprint, slow run-time execution and non-deterministic behavior of Java applications when running on Virtual Machines.

At the same time, Aphelion preserves and enhances the strengths that have contributed to Java Platform's remarkable success on desktops and servers, such as the “write once and run everywhere” paradigm. The result is an extensive IDE that offers features not available in other Java IDEs.

The Apogee port of Sun's CDC J2ME Virtual Machine and Foundation Profile was certified by Sun as CDC J2ME Platform compliant. This is the first and, thus far, the only compliance certification awarded by Sun for a port of CDC J2ME Virtual Machine and Foundation Profile. This certified port is being deployed [on top of LynxOS] by VeriFone, a worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions and a major provider of point-of-sale terminals, in its new line of “Java-powered” Sapphire site controllers, thus making the port the first production deployment of the certified CDC J2ME VM and FP in the industry.

 
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