May 2007

• AONews: Mission Critical Newsflash •
     Aonix: Productivity in Real-Time      Aonix Demonstration: Java Roasts C in Speed Test    Aonix ADT Eclipse Plug-ins Go Open Source      PERC Ultra Ported to Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS      ObjectAda Updated to Latest ETS RTOS      Real-Time Java Webinar Now Available in Aonix Webinar Archive      ObjectAda Real-Time RAVEN Updated with Latest Eclipse Plug-ins

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Notes from the Edge...

Java's Great, But We Still Love Ada Too!

Aonix proudly has been in the Ada business for over a quarter century, since the original founding of Alsys by Ada's creator, the late Jean Ichbiah. Alsys later merged with another Ada giant, Telesoft, and also absorbed German Ada supplier SysTeam. Through the years, we have been Ada pioneers - the first to provide an off-the-shelf safety certifiable solution, the first to provide an affordable, fast, and user-friendly desktop Ada solution (ObjectAda for Windows), the first Ada supplier to support the Eclipse environment, and the first commercial adopter of the lightning fast compilation technology created by Ada 95 designer Tucker Taft.

Many of our more visible marketing activities these days focus on our emerging real-time Java technologies: PERC Ultra and PERC Pico. We're aware that this visibility sometimes  can be a cause for consternation among our Ada clientele.  I've enjoyed discussions recently with some prominent Ada advocates such as Dirk Craeynest, the co-founder of Ada-Belgium and vice president of Ada-Europe. Dirk eloquently points out that our claims  More...

"C/C++ does for software what oxidation does for raw iron: makes it unsuitable for complex, reliable, and long-lived applications."
:: Java Roasts C in Speed Test :: Video: Ada Eclipse in Action :: Video - Hard Real-Time Java™
At ESC, Aonix demonstrated that an all Java code solution executing with PERC Ultra and PERC Pico outstrips an equivalent Java program that uses C code for computing-intensive algorithms. The demonstration reveals that low-level Java code executing in the PERC Pico environment ... More... Today, real-time software developers demand an efficient development environment that gives them access to the tools they need in a ‘one-stop-shop’ framework.   Due to its flexible nature and adaptable plug-in capability, Eclipse has become the development ...  More... In this pre-recorded webinar that you can view at your leisure, Kelvin Nilsen delves into the challenges and opportunities surrounding the use of the Java language for hard real-time applications. Real-world examples are discussed, and a demonstration of PERC Pico technology is provided ... More...