Berkeley, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transvirtual Technologies today announced the release of PocketLinux Version 1.0. PocketLinux is an application development/deployment environment for resource constrained computing devices. The PocketLinux platform enables developers to quickly and easily build/deploy applications across multiple platforms.

PocketLinux allows developers to write mobile applications as easily as they now create Web pages, and allows users to access any application and data on any handheld, set-top or Internet Appliance. The result is the ability to run the same applications on any device that runs PocketLinux, regardless of hardware.

PocketLinux integrates Kaffe, Transvirtual's award-winning cross-platform development environment, XML, the eXtensible Markup Language that is the dominant method for information sharing and application interoperability around the world, and embedded Linux, the most powerful and fastest growing embedded software environment available today.

The PocketLinux environment also includes an integrated framebuffer graphics library. This powerful feature allows for the construction of themed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with standard Java-Compatible APIs that run on even the most resource-constrained information appliances and Web-enabled mobile telephones.

PocketLinux Availability

With the release of Version 1.0, Transvirtual has made flashable binaries, source code and documentation for the platform available on the project's website, www.pocketlinux.com. Pocketlinux.com is a comprehensive online resource for developers and others interested in this exciting new development and deployment environment. PocketLinux is presently available for the Compaq iPaq, the Casio Cassiopeia E-105, E-110 and E-115, the NTT DoCoMo Sigmarion, the IBM Workpad Z-50, and the Vadem Clio. Additional client platforms will be announced shortly.

 
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