J2ME-compliant VM now available for Hard Hat Linux apps
Jan 3, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsSunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that version 1.4 of VisualAge Micro Edition 1.4 (VAME) is now available to subscribers of the Hard Hat Linux Professional Edition. This add-on product to Hard Hat Linux 2.0 provides developers with a certified J2ME Java environment as well as expanded support for a variety of platforms including x86/IA-32, PowerPC, MIPS,… Hitachi SuperH, StrongArm, ARM and Intel Xscale.
According to Mike Mathews, MontaVista's Java Product Marketing Manager, “Java is used in virtually every market served by MontaVista Software. Its adoption is moving especially fast in the emerging market for automotive information systems that provide in-car computing services such as navigation systems and multi-media data services; in consumer electronics, especially advanced PDA applications and digital set top box applications; and in the remote control and monitoring market for home gateway services.
The two evolving 'open' software standards, embedded Linux and embedded Java, are ideally suited for developing systems for pervasive computing solutions. The new VAME 1.4 from IBM/OTI is a development and deployment solution for building multi-modal Java applications and the embedded devices that run them. The IBM tool-kit offers embedded applications developers all the benefits of Java technology in a high performing, reliable and robust environment. The combination of the J9 Virtual Machine and Hard Hat Linux provide substantial advantages in terms of portability, developer productivity and application performance.
In VAME 1.4 for Hard Hat Linux, the J9 Virtual Machine and class libraries are implemented specifically for each target and tested on each supported platform. In addition to the VAME standard features, the MontaVista version provides support of flash memory ROM for saving valuable embedded space; AWT and MicroView tools for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs); and Serial I/O support, which provides support for all standard RS232 platforms.
VAME is an integrated development environment with runtime components incorporating IBM's latest embedded Java technology, the J9 Virtual Machine. VisualAge Micro Edition provides developers of embedded applications with a complete set of tools for the creation, testing and deployment of embedded Java applications.
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