JavaControl Adds Real-Time Management To Embedded Network Devices Through Applets.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1998--

Rapid Logic's New Development Kit Uses OpenControl Backplane(TM) to Make It Easy To Deploy Java for Network Element Management

Rapid Logic, Inc., crevendors to quickly and easily deploy Java-based configuration, management, monitoring, and control capabilities into their products. Using JavaControl, device vendors can expose the embedded functions of their products to higher-level JavvaControl SDK utilizes the OpenControl Backplaneets, HTML pages, e-mail alerts and command-line interfaces. Moreover, the OCB provides a bi-directional communication layer that reconciles the potentially crippling performance hit to network devices caused by using TCP as an interface fng embedded C code. As such, it's tailor-made fnications, eliminating the need for an embedded JVM. An Applet Broker handles all communication between the Wrk device. JavaControl's Applet Broker manages aions and minimize overhead.

The Applet Brn code from the underlying embedded C code so the integrity of a client's proprietary code is maintained. By developing Java-driven user interfaces that are integrated inges, Java applets, SNMP MIB variables, e-mail aldes fast time-to-market, reuse of code across mp Integration Tool

JavaControl comes bundled with the JavaControl Integration Tool, a visual Rapid Apmonths to minutes. The JavaControl Integration embedded elements to the Java layer) and "Build" (a customized Java applet that is tightly integrated with the functions of the embedded device). Because the process occurs in a completely visual, non-programmatic fashion, no knowledge of Java programming and only minimal knowledge of the underlying embedded functions of the device is needed to use JavaControl. Developers customize the look, feel, and function of their products using standard Java Beans as development bu Java development techniques.

"In talking base to Java-based graphs, monitors, and the like. Second, they didn't want their engineers to have to become Java experts to accomplish the task. Third, they wanted all of this without having to embed a JVM in the device," said Mark Sigal, CEO for Rapid Logic. "With JavaControl, we'rom product to product across the development life cycle. We're delivering cheap insurance for making sure that their element and network management strategy is not leading to a dead end."

JavaControl integrates easily with all major Real-Time Operating Systems, offering single-click integration. It is the perfect extension tool for customers who have already developed embedded HTML applications using WebControl(TM), Rapid Logic's embedded Web SDK that also interfaces with the OpenControl Backplane. Using a simpl for all major SNMP stacks, allowing vendors to avoid spending hundreds, if not thousands, of hours interfacilable through both royalty and royalty-free prol can be purchased directly from Rapid Logic. management methodologies including Web, Java, S (NASDAQ: ASNT), Performance Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTIX), Digital Microwave Corporation (NASDAQ: DMIC), Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., XLNT, and Packeteer, Inc.

About Rapid Logic, Inc.

Founded in 1996 by the pioneers of Web-based management for network devices, Rapid Logic, Inc., is a privately held software company that develops device configuration, management, and control solutions that deliver significant time-to-market and product development life cycle advantages to network device vendors. Investors include Sterling Payot Company, a private, San Francisco-based investment banking firm; Tom Shanahan, Chief Financial Officer of Agile Software Corporation in San Jose, Calif.; and Morton H. Meyerson, Chairman of Perot Systems Corporation based in Dallas.

For more information about Rapid Logic and its Open Control family of configuration anina Village Parkway, Alameda, CA 94501.

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