JavaScriptSearch Wednesday, July 19, 2006; 03:20 AM
Aonix is licensing EBS's WebC embedded web browser solution to
integrate it into the graphics capabilities of the PERC platform. By
adding browser capabilities, PERC platform developers will be able to
offer the HTML-based capabilities of integrated help and documentation
along with web-based browsing in embedded applications such as set top
devices, information kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, and handheld
diagnostic or data-gathering tools.
EBS's WebC is a small footprint, full featured, advanced embedded web
browser. WebC supports Document Object Model Level 1, CSS/2 positioned
format support, JavaScript language version 1.4, improved DHTML support
and browser-level event handling. WebC uses HTML authoring techniques
to storyboard the GUI application.
Aonix is currently integrating EBS's WebC embedded browser with the
Eclipse Software Widget Toolkit (SWT) to deliver a high-performance
graphics package for embedded Java developers. Since SWT is designed
to be as close to the native environment as possible, it offers the
ideal choice for graphics in embedded applications. The Aonix SWT
interface, a Java-based graphics library and a widget toolkit, supports
Swell Software’s PEG+ embedded graphics engine. The integrated WebC
will be available for sale in Q3 2006.
"The EBS WebC embedded browser is a perfect fit for the Aonix PERC
Virtual Machine and SWT/PEG+ graphics solution,” said Randy Rorden,
Aonix vice president of engineering. “It allows our customers to enjoy
all the benefits of the standard SWT Browser widget, while controlling
the memory footprint requirements so critical to embedded systems."
"We are pleased to partner with Aonix to provide embedded Java
developers with access to WebC,” said Peter Van Oudenaren, President
EBS, Inc. “The integration of WebC into the PERC platform offers Aonix
users a rich toolset for displaying HTML-based help screens and
formatted data. The toolset also expands developer’s options, giving
them the opportunity to include in their embedded Java applications
web-based components and to display either static or dynamically
generated web pages from either local or remote web servers."
First introduced nine years ago, PERC is a widely used real-time
Virtual Machine available for Java developers, with fielded
installations in telecommunications, telematics, avionics, deep space
exploration, and office automation applications. PERC supports most
major real-time operating systems and a variety of target processors
including PowerPC, XScale, ARM, and Intel x86 architectures.
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