Rococo Software
Java/Bluetooth Product Background
Sean O Sullivan | CTO | sos@rococosoft.com
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Rococo Software : Facts and Figures
Founded February 2000
Employees 15
Funding VC backed (€4M, June 2001)
Trinity Venture Capital and Enterprise Ireland
Sector Wireless Infrastructure Software and Tools
Technology Wireless Java (J2ME), Bluetooth, OSA/Parlay, SIP
Awards Infoconomy, Frost and Sullivan
Standards and Bluetooth SIG, Java Community Process (JCP), Irish Bluetooth
Affiliations Users Forum (IBUF). Parlay Group
Website www.rococosoft.com
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Background
Easy!
• Mission
– Let’s make it 100 times easier to
create Bluetooth Applications
Too Hard!
• Why?
Bluetooth Apps
– All Bluetooth Stack APIs
in Java
proprietary
• How?
JABWT/JSR-82 APIs
– Help create a Java/Bluetooth
standard
Java Virtual Machine
– Create Developer Tools that
support this standard
Integration layer
– License an implementation of this
standard to handset and other
Bluetooth Stack
equipment manufacturers
Operating System
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Impronto™
• Goal
– Make it easy to build, deploy and
manage Bluetooth applications
• How
– Create Java-Based framework that
abstracts low level networking issues
– Allow programmers to focus on
application issues
• Product Range
– Simulator
– Development Kit
– Technology Licensing Kit (TLK)
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Impronto Products
Build
• Impronto Simulator
Test
– Enables rapid development of Bluetooth Applications in Java
– No Bluetooth hardware required
Debug
– Integrates with development environments from hardware vendors (Palm,
Compaq, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, etc.)
Simulator
• Impronto Development Kit (DevKit)
– Enables deployment of applications onto hardware
– Linux Support (Regular “server side” Linux, Zaurus,…)
• Impronto Technology Licensing Kit (TLK)
– Java/Bluetooth OEM offering for manufacturers or suppliers in equipment
value-chain
• Phone, Handset, PDA, Automotive Platform, Set Top Box, Industrial,…
– Enables rapid creation of JSR82 support in target product line
Deploy
• Products have in common that they support the standard set of APIs for
using Bluetooth from Java (JSR82, or JABWT)
DevKit
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JABWT - Java APIs for Bluetooth
Wireless Technology
• Java Community Process (JCP) defines new Java Standards
• JABWT Expert Group started January 2001, completed March 2002
• Standard referred to as JSR-82
– Chaired by Motorola; other members include Rococo, Nokia, Ericsson,
Mitsubishi, Extended Systems
– Profiles supported : GAP, SDAP, SPP, GOEP
• JABWT provides an API-based standard for using Bluetooth from
Java
– Every Bluetooth stack has a different API - switching stacks implies
rewriting perhaps 60% of your code
– The JABWT API enables the development of genuinely portable
Bluetooth applications
• See www.jabwt.com for specifications, products, articles, etc
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Impronto simulator – product overview
• A simulator for developing,
testing and configuring Java
Bluetooth applications
• Platforms supported
– Windows, Unix, Linux, etc
(anywhere Java runs)
• Enables Bluetooth application
development – without having
to buy Bluetooth hardware
– Bluetooth network is simulated
in software
– GUI, Logging, Configuration
tools speed application
development
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Impronto simulator – features
• Complete JABWT Simulation
Environment
– Including virtual device (‘vstack’) for
accessing HCI, RFCOMM, L2CAP, SDP,
etc.
• Management GUI
– Tracking & controlling run-time behaviour
• Configuration GUI
– Controlling configurable aspects of
virtual device
– XML schema for representation of
configuration
• Supports point-to-point and multipoint
• Full logging capability
– Developer has detailed control to watch
for and log specific events
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Impronto DevKit– features
• DevKit enables deployment of
Java/Bluetooth applications onto a mobile
device
Java/Bluetooth App
• Current Platform Support
– Linux (many flavours, inc. Gumstix, Zaurus)
JABWT/ JSR-82 APIs
• Full implementation of JABWT
DevKit
– Device & Service Discovery (HCI & SDP)
Java Virtual Machine
– I/O (RFCOMM & L2CAP)
– OBEX
Integration layer
– Bluetooth Control Centre (BCC – security,
device control)
• Additional Impronto ease-of-use
Bluetooth Stack
abstractions
– E.g. UUID generation, access to additional
stack functionality
OS
– Supports J2SE, in addition to J2ME
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Impronto TLK
TLK Ref Implementation
• OEM Product – Targeted at Equipment
Manufacturers, Handset supply chain
Application Code
• Includes
– Full JABWT implementation
BTAPI
– Full Test Suite
Java Code
– Porting Guide BTAPI-common
– Utilities Package BTAPI-<impl>
• Customer chooses target VM, Bluetooth
Stack and Operating System Platform VM
• Focused Services available to assist or
deliver implementation
Porting layer interface
– Rococo Engineering Team will port, test, and
integrate full solution based on TLK *NI (JNI or KNI)
C Code
• Dramatically reduces time to produce a impl
tested and integrated Java/Bluetooth solution
• Passed full JSR82 TCK (multiple times, on Bluetooth Stack (BlueZ, ericsson, Simulator)
multiple platforms)
• Option to add Simulator for developer
Operating System
community
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Rococo, Java, Bluetooth - 50M and
counting
• Member of the expert group that defined
JABWT/JSR82
– January 2001 – April 2002
• World’s first implementation of
JABWT/JSR82
– Simulator 1.0 March 2002 (patented)
– First Development Kit Linux
November 2002
• Shipping in volume in handsets
– 100M+ units shipped since Q404
• World’s most deployed, tested
independent JABWT/JSR82
implementation
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Business Model and Market
PRODUCTS SERVICES
Developers
Early Adopters,
1K
Simulator Training
Education, Proof of
And
Concept
Consulting
Development Wireless System
3-25K Wireless
Integrators, ISVs
Kit Solutions
building wireless apps
J2ME
Equipment Manufacturers
Bluetooth
Technology OEM Market: phone, JSR82
Neg
PDA, STB, Home
Licensing Kit
g/w, Automotive
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Customers, Partners, Alliances
• TLK Customers
– Aplix
– Esmertec
– Ericsson Technology Licensing
– Ericsson Mobile Platforms
– Sony Ericsson
• Technology Partners
– IBM Websphere Solution Partner
• Impronto is JSR82 solution for IBM’s J9 VM
– Bluetooth Stack Vendors
• BlueZ (open source)
• Extended Systems
• Open Interface
• Tools Customers
– Nokia
– Siemens VDO
– Panasonic Matsushita
– NTT DoCoMo
– Motorola
– France Telecom
– University programmes (BlueVarsity)
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Bluetooth Applications – 18 Month View
• Next 6 months • Next 12-18 months
• Today
– Headsets! – Wireless Storage – UWB integration
(Hard Drives, USB)
(Europe)
– De-composed
– Stereo Headsets /
– Cars / Handsfree phone (like IXI)
(Europe/US) MP3 players
– Deeper PC
– Laptop/Phone – Game decks
Integration
(Nokia, Tapwave)
Integration
(Microsoft,
(Europe) – Healthcare (FDA
Apple)
– Soft Remotes approval
– Home (Health,
(Clicker for announced)
SonyEricsson, Monitor, Audio)
– Voice (Cordless
Mac)
CTP) – Camera
integration
– Printing
Relevance of Java/Bluetooth
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Summary
• Leading vendor of mobile collaboration software and
services
• World leading Java/Bluetooth products
– Strategic alliances with Ericsson, Aplix, esmertec, IBM
– Shipping in volume on handsets since Q4 2004 (over 100M units
now shipped)
• Further information, white papers, product evaluations:
– www.rococosoft.com
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