<p>In an attempt to capitalize on the huge opportunity in the embedded systems market, and the dominance of the Java programming platform, Oracle has unwrapped a new set of offerings facilitating the design of applications across a wide range of embedded systems. These systems include network appliances, healthcare devices, home gateways and routers, and large multifunction printers.</p><p>The company unveiled a pair of offerings as part of its embedded systems push: Oracle Java Embedded Suite 7.0, which aims to speed development of embedded systems; and Oracle Java Micro Edition (ME) Embedded 3.2, a run-time version geared for microcontrollers with less than a megabyte of memory, and as little as 130K bytes of RAM and 350K bytes of ROM.</p><p>Oracle Java ME Embedded provides a commercial, binary implementation of Java for small-footprint devices, based on ARM v5, ARM v6, and ARM v7 design chipsets. (Source: Oracle)</p><p>Citing stats such as 1 billion Java downloads annually, and the fact that more than 3 billion devices are powered by Java technology, Oracle officials said the market is ripe for more powerful development tools built on the programming language, and optimized for the design of embedded systems applications. Especially, they claim, in light of the growing interest in creating machine-to-machine applications (M2M), or what's being called the "Internet of Things."</p><p><a href="http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1394&doc_id=251396&f_src=designnews_gnews">Keep reading...</a></p>