[Embedlets-dev] new JavaDevices All Embedded Java site (sneek peek)

[Ted K. <tk...@ya...>]

During the past couple of weeks I have been busy putting together a central
Embedded Java community site and if you want to take a sneek peek at it, here
it is:

http://javadevices.org


All of the development-oriented parts of the site are housed in a new java.net
project including email lists, CVS, etc.


For a while now I have felt that the Embedded Java community needed a central,
vendor-neutral site where the community could deal with the 'big picture'
issues involved with growing the Embedded Java space as a whole.  

After thinking to myself for a number of years "why doesn't someone put
together a central site like this because Embedded Java needs one very badly?"
one day I woke up and thought "why don't you just get off your b*tt and do it
yourself?".

The site is not completely fleshed-out yet but the foundational Java Beginner's
course is live and I am currently working on re-working and uploading  1-Wire
and TINI/TSTIK follow_on modules.  My hope is that Embedded Java vendors will
use the foundation_module to help ease their customers into the world of Java
and then to develop and upload follow_on modules of their own which deal with
their specific products.


JBASIC and JPLAB are also getting close and I hope to have them up too by
sometime next week.  The goal with these two pieces of technology is to provide
a standard, free, open-source BASIC and a simple IDE environment (to run it and
other plugins in) to Embedded Java vendors so that they can do the following:

1) Provide the easiest way possible for developers to get up and running
quickly on their respective products.

2) To finally have a way to go after the traditional Embedded Systems market
which is still dominated by products like BasicStamp, BasicX, PICBasic, etc.


I would have had JBASIC up sooner but I ran into a serialization bug with TINI
1.12 that Dallas Semiconductor is currently fixing and hopefully they will
release a patch for it relatively soon.


Anyway, have fun looking through the site and feel free to subscribe to the
top-level 'discuss' list with any feedback you may have.


Ted

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