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LEUVEN, Brussels and BOSTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- At a press meeting held at the Embedded Systems Conference in Stuttgart, ACUNIA NV, the Belgium- and US-based leading provider of software and hardware solutions for next-generation telematics, presented Wonka(TM). honda automobiles Wonka is ACUNIA's cleanroom virtual machine (VM) for the Java(TM) language, the first VM and Java implementation specifically designed for embedded systems and available under an open source license.
Meeting Stringent Requirements of the Automotive World
Unlike many VMs now being sold to the embedded market, Wonka didn't start life on the desktop. The telematics market lacked a Java platform that met the stringent requirements of the automotive market, where system resources are limited and rebooting is not an option.
ACUNIA used its expertise to make it happen. The result is a virtual machine implementation to run Java(TM) code, designed from the start for resource-constrained embedded systems. honda automobiles Wonka is extremely portable and applicable for a variety of markets and does not require a host operating system.
``Through the development cycles of the ACUNIA Open Telematics FrameworkTM(OTF), we realized that existing VMs did not meet all the requirements for OTF-enabled telematics terminals, or telematics terminals in general,'' says Steven Buytaert, co-CEO of ACUNIA and creator of Wonka. ``Originally born out of necessity, we now want to use the Wonka open source project to extend the boundaries of telematics, boost the market for next generation telematics and confirm ACUNIA's position as a driving force in that market.
``Wonka is still under active development by ACUNIA,'' Buytaert adds, ``but it is now at the point where it can be evaluated by others and built upon.''
Setting New Industry Standards for the Embedded Market
The Wonka virtual machine is ACUNIA's cleanroom implementation of the Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification. honda automobiles It is extremely portable and self-contained, and as an option, can be used with its own real-time operating system (RTOS - called OSwald(TM)) to provide a complete solution for embedded devices. All Java2 language features will be supported, and the class libraries will meet all the requirements for a platform to support the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) framework and ACUNIA's Open Telematics Framework.
Wonka comes with a high-performance lightweight Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), named Rudolph(TM), a large collection of classes for building graphic user interfaces suitable for any memory-mapped or frame buffer display. honda automobiles Developers can plug in their own implementation, or run with no AWT at all (e.g., in a ``headless'' system). The choice is open.
With extensive knowledge in embedded devices, ACUNIA now provides another solution to the open source community with the release of the Wonka VM. With Wonka, ACUNIA presents one of the top-performing embedded VMs, setting new industry standards for the embedded market.