Glendale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Art & Logic, Inc. released the Device Management Framework, a toolkit for creating remote control applications using the popular open source GoAhead WebServer. The Device Management Framework is available for Embedded Linux (and Linux), eCOS, VxWorks, and other platforms. Typical memory footprint is 300KB.

The toolkit enables product developers to create HTML, Macromedia Flash, and XML-RPC based clients for their embedded products. The framework's clean separation between device code and web code allows firmware engineers and user interface specialists to work together using the tools they are already familiar with. Device simulation on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X makes it easy to develop applications using traditional web development tools. User interfaces and server-side scripts can be developed before, or in parallel with, firmware and hardware.

The XML-RPC library makes it possible to create rich, dynamic user interfaces using Macromedia Flash development tools. Flash is an ideal technology for embedded devices. Flash movies are vector-based, making them smaller and faster than implementations using other plug-ins. Flash Player is extremely popular as an internet client and works consistently across multiple browsers, platforms, and even PDA's.

Source code licenses sell for $9895 and include 40 hours of co-engineering and 90 days of e-mail support. Art & Logic also provides custom development services to embedded product developers.

Further details on the Device Management Framework toolkit are available here.

 
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