Java is the good or is the bad or is the ugly?

[7rots51]

Hi
This is only a survey.
I saw many topics for using Java in embedded systems,But I do not know it is used widely by companies for embedded system designs or it is only used for research and evaluation in embedded systems.

Did you used java in you embedded system ,if yes please share your experience about using it,what ability it give you in copare with c?

 

[Ajay]

Frankly, it is not about good, bad or ugly. It is more about what do you NEED in the application.

If you are doing an embedded Ethernet application which has to have animation on the browser, then Java is the best method to implement the virtual machine rather than doing a PhP script which makes it very heavy on data throughput.

I would never use Java for user interfaces front end (in fact, many people tried to do that and that spelt the bad name Java received) since it is not very well supported for the same.

One advantage of using Java in embedded application is that there are plenty of engineers available (due to the Jave boom of few years ago in the commercial applications). It is also relatively easy to deploy.

Ajay

 

[7rots51]

hi
what is your idea about using GUI of java in embedded systems instead of c libs?or using of java for its powerful gui?

Bye

 

[wolf69]

About Java and GUI:
I think there are few way to get a user interface on various platforms, one is Java+Swing (or Java+XUL) the other is useing emerging web's way (SVG and HTML).
Bye