Eclipse Edje: A Java API for Microcontrollers

We will also cover what the next planned features are and where we need some community involvement.

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This is a virtual Meetup occurring at 8AM Pacific time (11am Eastern, 5pm Central European Standard Time). For help with your timezone calculation, refer to this (http://time.is/compare/0900_28_Sept_2016_in_PDT).

The meetup will be held on Google Hangouts and you will be able to watch the live stream directly on YouTube.

The Eclipse Edje (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.edje) project defines a standard high-level Java API called Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for accessing hardware features delivered by microcontrollers (MCU) such as GPIO, DAC, ADC, PWM, etc. that can directly connect to native libraries, drivers, and board support packages provided by silicon vendors with their evaluation kits. MCUs are small low-cost low-power 32-bit processors designed to run software in resource-constrained environments: low memory (typically KB), flash (typically MB) and frequency (typically MHz).

In this webinar, we will give an update on this project, presenting the project philosophy, the intended scope and dependencies, and of course, what is available for anyone to download and evaluate the project content. We will also cover what the next planned features are and where we need some community involvement.

Speaker: Laurent Lagosanto

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Laurent has been working in the embedded Java space for almost 20 years, starting with banking terminals and avionic systems, and then going down to Java in the very small, joining the Java Card teams at Gemalto first and then at Oracle, designing and implementing Java Virtual Machines for smart cards or other highly memory and CPU-constrained and security-oriented devices.
Laurent is now Senior Architect at MicroEJ (http://www.microej.com/), an Independent Software Vendor providing Virtual Machine-based operating systems and solutions for small embedded devices.
MicroEJ, a long-time Eclipse adopter, has incepted the Edje project on Eclipse.org and will be providing an open-source reference implementation of Edje on top of MicroEJ OS.