Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Aplix, Microware, Tektronix and Wind River Systems have been licensed or have signed a letter of intent to license EmbeddedJava TM technology. These companies, who are already PersonalJava TM platform licencees, now plan to distribute and include EmbeddedJava technology in their products to their customers worldwide. EmbeddedJava technology provides developers with a configurable Java TM technology-based environment to build embedded consumer and industrial devices such as cell phones, pagers, printers, industrial controllers, and telephony equipment including switches and routers. Transparent to consumers, systems with EmbeddedJava technology will reliably and effortlessly control those sophisticated devices with which users interact everyday.
Letters of intent are subject to the closing of definitive agreements.
EmbeddedJava technology allows Tektronix to deliver these application solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner while building a library of utilities that enables the rapid development of additional applications. The EmbeddedJava Application Environment was designed for device manufacturers and developers who want to leverage the tools and class libraries provided by EmbeddedJava technology for embedded devices with dedicated functionality and severely limited memory. Typically, these devices do not require general purpose web browsing. Using the EmbeddedJava Application Environment, manufacturers of embedded devices can realize the benefits of Java technology. In addition, Java technology provides for the secure deployment of services to the growing range of networked consumer devices.