emWare releases EMIT Distributed Objects SDK

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(10/22/02, 11:57:03 AM EDT)

Salt Lake City, Utah --- emWare Corp. has released a developer studio with all of the essential components for building applications within its just announced EMIT for Distributed Objects.

At the heart of the EMIT Developer Studio is the Embedded Network Builder(ENB) software that automatically generates the code required for networking embedded devices.

Unlike various point solutions available today, the EMIT for Distributed Objects Developer Studio is designed to help developers build a complete embedded solution that supports remote communications with such devices as printers, commercial lighting and security systems, point-of-sale systems and medical equipment using such client applications as Web browsers, spreadsheets, PDAs or even e-mail.

Available now, the first release of the SDK is designed to allow developers to leverage standard TCP/IP-over-Ethernet infrastructure to directly control and manage their intelligent devices. This direct device-to- client application communication is especially useful in situations in which the client applications and devices are on the same Local Area Network (LAN) behind a firewall.

A Windows-based tool, ENB allows a developer to interactively access and configure the networking protocols, services and features required by their embedded and small footprint computing iappliance applications.

ENB can be used to create Object Interfaces that describe these networking features and functions. The ENB then automatically generates EMIT Micro Object Server source code in "C" that developers can easily integrate with their device application.

The MOS software provides all the customized communication logic, protocols and stacks that enable the device application to communicate with the other components of the EMIT for Distributed Objects framework, including the Object Access Library (OAL) for client communications.

The ENB also includes a Board Support Package (BSP) for the Microsoft Windows platform, allowing developers to simulate their device application in a Windows environment before porting it to a specific hardware platform. In addition to the ENB, the EMIT Developer Studio also includes the following components:

An Ethernet-TCP/IP SDK, which is used together with the ENB SDK has all the tools, documentation and examples needed by developers to add networked communications to embedded devices that are based on TCP/IP over Ethernet. This SDK also includes a Hitachi H8S/2134F reference board with an Ethernet add-on module for TCP/IP communications.

In the near future, emWare is planning to offer a full suite of alternative device communication SDKs and client communication libraries to allow developers to obtain the tools that best suit their needs. For example, upcoming device- communications SDKs will support TCP/IP-over-modem and serial communications. In addition, future OALs will support such client application environments and platforms as C++ and Java.

The ENB SDK is available now for $399.

For more information on this story, go to www.emware.com.

For more information about topics, products and technologies mentioned in this story go to the iAppliance Web Views page and call up the associatively-linked Java/XML-based Web map of the iApplianceWeb site.

Enter the appropriate key word, product or company name to list instantly every news and product story, product review and product database entry relating to the topic since the beginning of the year.