Traditional computer languages such as BASIC, Pascal and C have ways to model data and functionality, but they don’t have any way to model objects, in the “object oriented” sense of that word. Instead ...

Embedded objects in Microsoft Word are those inserted directly into a document, such as text boxes, shapes and pictures. Although Word is not a graphics program, it offers basic graphic editing ...

Object Oriented Programming was introduced to software development almost half a century ago but should it be banished from embedded, safety-critical development? Object Oriented Programming (OOP) was ...

Persistent Java objects simplify the storage and exchange of complex object structures. Poet Software's FastObjects j2 is a pure Java implementation of an object database management system (ODBMS). It ...

The previous section discussed how to obtain and set up Java for both Windows and Linux personal computers. Now, we're going to talk briefly about the Java language itself. Again, we're not trying to ...

PowerPoint, Microsoft's presentation and slide software, allows you to create animated presentations featuring text, images, sounds and other media objects. In addition to these custom features, you ...

Today's sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) devices implement a variety of specialized microelectronic functions. Those functions, sometimes complete embedded systems in their own right, typically ...