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Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: LynuxWorks | Subject: Apogee Aphelion IDE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 December 2001

IDE provides faster
route to embedded Java

Apogee's Aphelion integrated development environment (IDE) is to be offered to LynuxWorks' customers deploying Java applications on LynxOS real-time or BlueCat Linux operating systems

Apogee's Aphelion integrated development environment (IDE) is to be offered to LynuxWorks' customers deploying Java applications on the LynxOS real-time or BlueCat Linux 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 re-use options as they develop and manage product life cycles.

VeriFone will become the first company to use LynxOS with the Aphelion IDE to develop its new line of "Java-powered" Sapphire site controllers.

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 behaviour 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.

"This agreement leverages the benefits of Sun's Java technology, Aphelion's advanced IDE capabilities and LynuxWorks' operating systems to provide our customers with best-of-breed technologies for our customers developing embedded products", said Bob Morris, vice president of marketing for LynuxWorks.

"Java is being deployed in communications, office automation and consumer appliance markets where developers require the ability to rapidly add new features and evolve their products.

By continuously seeking out extensible platforms and technologies for the markets we serve, we are better able to serve our customer needs with complete developer solutions as requirements continue to change".

"Aphelion and its ports of Sun's Virtual Machines to embedded processors running LynxOS and BlueCat Linux offer a winning combination to LynuxWorks customers that want to enter a fast growing market for Java-powered embedded devices", said George Malek, chairman and CEO of Apogee.

"Apogee is excited about the opportunity to work with LynuxWorks on making the embedded systems running LynxOS and BlueCat Linux the platforms of choice for deployment of many kinds of Java applications".

The Apogee x86/LynxOS 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 by VeriFone 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.

"The Apogee CDC J2ME VM gives our development effort several important advantages", said Brad McGuinness, director of engineering at VeriFone's petroleum division.

"First, because it's scalable for different applications, it allows us to take greater advantage of the "write once and run anywhere" characteristic of Java across a greater potential range of embedded platforms.

Secondly, because Aphelion supports space-optimisation and ahead-of-time compiling of bytecodes, we have greater assurance that applications targeted for a given platform will perform as required.

Finally, because CDC J2ME tracks more closely to Sun's Java roadmap, our applications can take greater advantage of innovations from Sun, third-party vendors, and the Open Source community.

We can now deliver better engineered software products to our customers faster, and those products will be more resistant to platform churn".

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