Design and implementation of a HAVi stack with Linux and Java

We provided a proposal using Linux and Java to construct the HAVi stack for information appliances. Two big advantages can be obtained from the use of Java. One advantage is that the transplant nature of programs between platforms is very high, and the other is that the native and Java code can be programmed in parallel. A big advantage of adopting Linux is that developers can use the same operating system for development and target platforms. The proposed HAVi stack aims the controller devices that provide the Java runtime environment. We divide the HAVi stack into several layers, where each layer contains several functional modules. These well-designed modules decreases the effort of building this architecture on the other platforms or communication media, and they also increase the possibility of introducing new features to the HAVi stack.