[PLUG-Devel] RAD for hardware control? Java? Something?

[Alan Dayley]

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I'm looking for a good, non-MS, non-BigEmbeddedProrpietaryHighCostVendor
rapid development tool set.

I am not a Java developer, just a dabbler and very little of even that.
 However, Java has much going for it as a rapid application development
(RAD) language.

- - Soon to be (already?) released as GPL  (Way cool!)
- - IDE's with pretty GUI development tools
- - Large knowledge base
- - Well known to the "suits"
- - Lots of tools

However, where I work, we need RAD for hardware.  We need to write
programs that issue specific SCSI or IDE or serial commands.  That poke
register values and manipulate controllers.

Can Java do these things?  Can it be extended, without too much
additional work, to do these types of low-level hardware operations?

What about other languages like Python or TCL?

Linux is "taking off" in the embedded world but the hardware
manipulation level is still dominated by closed source tools.  I want
FS/OSS tools and a community to go with it.

Alan
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