“In a continuing effort to establish itself as a leader in
embedded applications, IBM will release through its Object
Technology Inc. (OTI) subsidiary ports of optimized versions of its
J9 Java Virtual Machine next Monday as well as associated tools to
three more hardware platforms and two more operating systems.”
“More importantly, IBM (stock: IBM) will finally take the
wraps off its closely guarded “common code base” strategy that will
allow embedded developers to move seamlessly across multiple OSes
andprocessors with little modification to their underlying Java
code, with no new investment in development tools and with no
performance degradation.”
“Our aim is to support all of the major and some of the minor
hardware and software platforms used in embedded design today, and
to continue to evolve and extend our support as new architectures
and architectural variants occur in the future,” said Marc
Erickson, product manager for embedded systems at Object
Technology.”