JavaScriptSearch Thursday, November 30, 2006; 06:36 AM
Excelsior LLC has announced that Excelsior JET 4.8, the latest
update to the company's certified Java SE technology implementation for
desktop and embedded systems, has been released today. The key new
feature of this version is the substantial reduction of disk footprint
of Java applications.
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With one terabyte hard drives on the horizon, application disk
footprint does not sound like a big issue on the desktop. But the
growing popularity of technologies such as U3 Smart Drive or Ceedo
Personal, which let you carry your entire computing environment around
on a portable device and use it on any Windows PC, forces application
developers to think the disk footprint issue over again.
The use of flash memory cards and USB drives as application
distribution media is also on the rise, and the less space your app
takes, the more data such as maps or ebooks you can put on a card of
the same capacity.
Java applications do not quite fit in the above environments. The
reason is they only work on systems that have the so called Java
Runtime Environment (JRE) installed, and the JRE alone is much larger
than a typical desktop application written in C++. The latest versions
of the JRE available from Sun Microsystems, the creator of the Java
technology, occupy about 70 megabytes of disk space, a bit too much
considering flash memory costs.
Excelsior JET converts platform-neutral Java code into highly optimized
machine code and produces native executables for Windows or Linux that
run without the JRE. Excelsior JET 4.8, released on November 29th,
2006, is the first Java SE technology implementation that enables you
to reduce the disk footprint of your Java applications. It detects the
components of the Java runtime that are likely not required for your
application to work and compresses them using a very effective
specialized algorithm. On-demand decompression may be done direct to
memory at run time. As a result, a medium-size Java desktop application
built using SWT and J2SE 5.0 takes only 20MB of disk space.
Excelsior JET is a certified Java SE technology implementation designed
to help accelerate Java applications, secure them against reverse
engineering, and distribute Java software products without dependency
on the JRE.
The complete list of improvements and new features in Excelsior JET 4.8 may be found at http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jetlatest.html
Excelsior JET 4.8 supports Windows and Linux on Intel x86 and
compatible hardware. Three Editions are available: Standard, which
lists for $1,200 per developer, Professional, priced from $2,300 per
developer, and Enterprise, $4,500. All purchases include one year of
support and upgrades.
Academic licenses are available to students and members of the faculty
and staff of qualified academic institutions at much reduced prices.
No runtime fee applies to deployment of optimized applications to
conventional desktop PCs and servers. Deployment to embedded systems is
subject to royalties.
For more information or to download an evaluation copy, visit www.excelsior-usa.com
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