Also at the Embedded Systems Show this week, Insignia Solutions Inc revealed its own promised clean room implementation of Java for embedded devices (CI No 3,324). Called JENE (a name uncomfortably close to Sun’s own JINI), the software includes an embedded Java virtual machine, and Insignia claims it is the first to make Java viable for embedded systems for the first time. EVM includes such technologies as a concurrent garbage collector and an adaptive optimizing dynamic compiler, resulting, says Insignia, in a Java virtual machine with small memory footprint, fast execution and predictable behavior. The implementation complies with EmbeddedJava specifications, says Insignia. The runtime component includes the virtual machine and class libraries, and the JENE Suite includes development tools and utilities. It’s initially available on VxWorks, Windows NT and WindowsCE, and for Hitachi SH, Intel x86 and MIPS chips, with more to follow.
