Device Kit Preface

The Device Kit is an Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) enabled technology that enables you to interface with hardware devices from Java ^(TM) code. You can use the Device Kit to split the serialized dependency that software development has on hardware platform development. The Device Kit enables you to develop applications for devices when hardware-specific information is unknown.

Most of the Device Kit code is Java code; however, a small percentage of code is devoted to interfacing with the operating system. Application code and business logic interface with the Device Kit to get information from the hardware device.