March 2007

• AONews: Mission Critical Newsflash •
     Aonix: Productivity in Real-Time     PERC used in Aegis system and BOSS system       ObjectAda used in Tomahawk program       Free webinar: Real-Time Java 5 and JSE       ObjectAda release for PikeOS      Aonix named Wind River Platfrom Partner       Concurrent, Prosyst agreements reached

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Notes from the Edge...

Nuremburg Says "Willkommen" to Hard Real-Time Java

We know that there have been numerous barriers inhibiting embedded developers from the freedoms of using Java™. Nobody understands the challenges of breaking down walls of separation more than Germans. Thus, Nuremburg seemed a fitting site for the announcement of PERC Pico, the wall crusher of the embedded world.

Java has already made substantial inroads into segments of the embedded market. Most notably, Java Micro Edition (JME) solutions have had tremendous success in non-real-time applications of modest complexity, such as mobile devices. On the real-time side, Aonix' PERC Ultra VM has been providing reliable real-time garbage collection and predictable threading behavior on many hundreds of thousands of fielded installations of high functional complexity, since its introduction nearly a decade ago.

Yet, the broader adoption of Java programming for embedded devices has been hampered due to real and perceived limitations of traditional Java technologies. According to a survey by Embedded Market Forecasters, the top reasons  More...
:: PERC Pico Breaks New Ground :: VARCO Selects PERC :: Webinar - Hard Real-Time Java™
At Embedded World in Nuremburg, Aonix announced the first commercial release of its new PERC Pico technology. PERC Pico is the first development environment for Java developers truly geared toward the creation of resource-constrained and deeply embedded hard real-time applications and... More... National Oilwell Varco has selected the Aonix PERC Ultra™ virtual machine (VM) for its Java™-based control system that manages automated robotic drilling. National Oilwell Varco, a leading designer and manufacturer of a broad range of technologically advanced drilling equipment, AC and DC drives, pipe-handling equipment, ...  More... Kelvin Nilsen, a published Java™ industry expert will delve into the challenges and opportunities surrounding the use of the Java language for hard real-time applications. If you have previously thought Java was inappropriate for hard real-time systems, this webinar is a must-attend event... More...