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Trace URC Software Development Kit

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About
Quick Facts
Downloads
Installation
Tutorial
Release Notes
Documentation
Acknowledgement
See also

About

The URC Software Development Kit is the first public Java code library based on the family of ANSI standards on a Universal Remote Console (URC). Client (controller) and Target developers can now jumpstart into the URC technology by harnessing the existing code library by downloading the SDK. The code is based on JDK 1.5 or later.

The SDK includes the following functionality:

Partial conformance with ANSI/INCITS 389-2005 through 393-2005 (for missing features see release notes)
Target-side UI Sockets
Client-side UI Socket mirrors
Parsing of Target Descriptions, Socket Descriptions, Presentation Templates and Resource Sheets
Client-side resource manager retrieving Resources from Resource Sheets
Interactor layer for easy implementation of custom Java-based UIID implementation
Implementation of UPnP-based 2-service TUN (Target and URC devices and services)
Adaptation layer for selected UPnP AV devices (MediaServers: Philips Media Manager, TwonkyMedia; MediaRenderer: Philips Streamium SL300i)

The SDK has the following goals:

Reference implementation of the URC framework for industry
Software development kit making it easy to develop URC-compliant Target and client software
Easy integration of existing UPnP devices
Code basis for other development projects (See also)

Quick Facts

Project status: Version 3.2 available for download (see below)

Organization: Trace Center

Team: Jamie Tabaka, Hemanth Vijayan, Gottfried Zimmermann (lead), Parikshit Thakur & team

Contributors: Trace URC team all-time members

Tutorial

A multi-part tutorial is available.

Release Notes

The release notes contain a list of new features, known limitations and known bugs. Note that the current release does not support all features specified in the ANSI URC standards. Please report new bugs and problems to zimmer@trace.wisc.edu.

Documentation

Javadoc documentation is available.

Acknowledgement

The creation of the underlying software was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), US Department of Education under grants H133E980008, and H133E990006; the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI); and gifts from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.