NDS Announces New OCAP Software Tool for Eclipse Development Environment; New Tool Speeds Set-Top Box Application Development and Offers Leading-Edge Development Features.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- --Advanced tool for use on the Eclipse platform, a Java(SM) technology-based open source development environment --New capability is free for MediaHighway Development Kit users NDS Group NDS Group plc is a DRM and conditional access firm. It is listed on the NASDAQ (symbol NNDS), but its major shareholder is News Corporation. The company is headquartered in West Drayton (near Heathrow), United Kingdom. The CEO of NDS is Abe Peled. plc, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the immediate availability of a new plug-in for its OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP OCAP Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Canada) OCAP Open Cable Application Platform (middleware software specification) OCAP Out of Control Action Plan ) version of its widely popular MediaHighway Development Kit (MHDK) Advanced. The new plug-in speeds open standards-based set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. application development and offers superior debugging features. It is compliant with the latest version of Eclipse, the most popular open source development platform today. The Eclipse platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse as interactive TV (iTV) applications, web sites and embedded Java programs. The MediaHighway Advanced authoring tool allows for the development and customization of applications to be deployed on Java technology-based digital iTV platforms. Using this new plug-in, developers can now address an even wider variety of iTV environments, enabling the development of all types of OCAP applications, whether resident, service-bound, unbound unbound said of electrolytes, e.g. iron and calcium, and other substances which are circulating in the bloodstream and are not bound to plasma proteins so that they are available immediately for metabolic processes. See also calcium, iron. or a Monitor Application. "The Eclipse environment is based on open-source, industry standards and that's what NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services is all about - open solutions," said Dr. Dov Robin, vice president and general manager, NDS Americas. "With the addition of this new MHDK plug-in tool for the Eclipse platform, we are enabling developers to create bleeding-edge iTV applications for a broad spectrum of environments, and making it even more attractive - it's a free offering for our current MHDK customers." The new MDHK plug-in is compliant with the latest version of Eclipse, Version 3.1 that was recently announced. It also offers the same level of features as JBuilder and NetBeans. The capabilities of this new tool will be demonstrated at the home/office desk display in a simulated living room at the JavaOne conference, located in the "Celebrate the Power of Java" Pavilion. MHDK Advanced is the first and only development tool in the market to simulate the complete interactive TV chain, including the Out Of Band (OOB OOB Out-Of-Band OOB Out-Of-Bounds OOB Old Orchard Beach (Maine) OOB Out of Body (experience) OOB Order Of Battle OOB Out of Box (software implementation projects) ) network, enabling developers to create, edit, test and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. interactive TV Java applications for MediaHighway Advanced set-top boxes and digital TVs on a single PC. MHDK Advanced can simulate for developers the complete behavior of a MediaHighway Advanced OCAP set-top box. An extremely high-performance tool, MHDK Advanced sharply reduces equipment costs and accelerates development time, leading to faster time-to-market implementations of innovative iTV applications. Features of the tool include: --Attractive GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. design tool with a built-in Java source code generator --Code editor for extending and customizing the source code --Simulator for running the application before uploading to a STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box --Recorded or real streams injector for end-to-end work --NTSC operation with configurable screen resolution --Comprehensive debugger for tracing and analyzing the code --Operations for downloading applications to a STB with monitoring About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/Euronext Brussels: NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, is the leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. About the Eclipse Foundation Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, Java technology IDE, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. Java and JavaOne are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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