Building a Reliable Remote Communication Device with Java ME8 [CON2285]

Building a Reliable
Remote Communication
Device with Java ME 8
JavaOne San Francisco 2014 - CON2285
Leonardo Lima – V2COM (llima@v2com.mobi, @leomrlima)
© 2002 - 2014 V2COM - Hardware + Software. All rights reserved

About Leonardo Lima
• Software Development Manager at V2COM
• V2COM representative at the JCP-EC: Java Community
Process – Executive Committee
• Spec Lead - JSR 363 – Units of Measurement
• llima@v2com.mobi and/or @leomrlima

• V2COM is a leading Latin American
provider of Smart Grid technologies and
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).
Our offer includes hardware, software
and services that can reduce losses and
increase water and energy efficiency,
currently connecting more than
1.000.000 devices.

Agenda
• The definition of reliable
• What it means to be a reliable device?
• Java ME 8 improvements
• What Java ME 8 brought to the game
• Java ME 8 applied
• Improvements, applied
• More improvements to come
• New JSRs and room for improvements

The definition of reliable
What it means to be a reliable device?

What does reliable mean?
• re·li·a·ble (adjective): that may be relied on; dependable in
achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.
• Do not fail!
• Do not lose data!
• Do not let others tamper with your data!

Do not fail!
• Protected against the environment
• Protected against hardware failures
• Protected against software failures
• Protected against attackers

Do not lose data!
• It’s the device mission to ensure the data acquired is safely
stored in itself.
• It’s the device mission to ensure that data is safely transferred
to the backend services.

Do not let others mess with your data!
• Take into account all security aspects
• Authenticity: data you sent is sent from you, really
• Confidentiality: Only you and the right server sees the data
• Integrity: data received == data sent

Java ME 8 improvements
What Java ME 8 brought to the game

Improvements
• Language Improvements (less bugs!)
• Service Loader pattern
• Events and Inter-Midlet Communication
• Device I/O
• Security Improvements
• Shared Libraries
Java SE 8
Java ME 8 (CLDC 8)

Shared Libraries (LIBlets)
• Can be uniquely updated, disabled/enabled.
• A shareable software component that one or more applications
MAY use at runtime
• Save static footprint size by enabling multiple application suites
to share the same common code without packaging them
redundantly
• Reduced download times for applications that declare
dependencies on shared components

Service Loader
• Enables creation of microservices inside your device
• Independent services that can be uniquely updated,
disabled/enabled.
• Monolithic firmware is now split into different services

Events
• Object driven communication
• Publisher/Subscriber pattern
• One-To-Many communication
• Asynchronous delivery
• Caveat: Events are (silently) discarded if there are no
subscribers

Inter-MIDlet Communication
• Raw, bidirectional socket communication
• Fast and Synchronous!
• Reliable one-to-one communication
• You know when the peer is there
• Just like “localhost” sockets

Network Security
• TLS protocol enhancements
• SecureConnection and SecureServerConnection support TLS 1.2
• SecureServerConnection provides the server-side of a TLS connection
• DTLS protocol support for TLS over UDP
• SecureDatagramConnection provides client-side support for DTLS

Application Provisioning & Management
• Application Management System (AMS) allows fine grained
control on what get installed
• App Management Agent manages local applications via the
AMS api

Device I/O
• Unified, object-oriented way to interact with I/O
• Basic I/Os already mapped
• I2C, GPIO, SPI, UART, ADC, Watchdog, PWM, Pulse Counter
• Architecture is ready for extension with generic AbstractDevice,
DeviceProvider

Language improvements
• Improved collections
• Generics
• Autoboxing
• Static imports
• Enumerations
• Try with resources
• Better byte and string manipulation
• Events
• Logging

Java ME 8 applied
Improvements, applied to our use cases

Before…
• We had 3 big blocks of code, merged as one on deploy
• Hardcore for hardware abstraction
• Zion for commons infrastructure and AT
• App for application logic
• One big file to manage (OTAP)
• Java 1.3 language…
• Did I mean Latin?

… and now
• Multiple services and libraries
• Instead of big libraries
• Less boilerplate code
• Enum, foreach, try with resources makes it less verbose, more agile
• Less ancient code
• Easier for “desktop developers” to understand and join the fun
• Less “made in home” code
• Many pieces are now already in the platform, like Device I/O, Events,
Logging
• Less code for us to mantain

Shared Libraries
Crypto / Hashes
Queues
Concurrency
Advanced String
& Byte
Manipulation
Advanced Math Device protocols
Units and
Measurements
Event and Bus

Services
(Safe) Storage
Data acquisition
(Application)
Black Box Logging
Remote transfer
External Sensor
Power
management
WAN
Management
Watchdogs
System
Configuration
Firmware Update
Management
Resource
Management

More improvements to
come
New JSRs and room for improvements

JSR 363 – Units of Measurement
• JSR to beter type data that we acquire, targeting ME 8
• https://java.net/projects/unitsofmeasurement
import javax.measure.quantity.*;
public class TemperatureRecord {
private Time timestamp;
private Temperature temperature;
private String sensor;
...getters, setters...
}

JSR 363 – Units of Measurement in JDK
• Otávio Santana (SouJava, OpenJDK) is actively working in a
SE 8 port of the JSR!
• Streams, Lambda, High precision (BigDecimal): guaranteed!
• Reducers, sorters, summation, group and filters.
List<Quantity<Time>> sortNaturalList = times
.stream()
.sorted(QuantityFunctions.sortNaturalDesc())
.collect(Collectors.toList());

Room for improvement
• Configuration
• Concurrency utilities
• Standard protocols (MQTT, CoAP, JSON, HTTP, REST)

Q?

Thanks!
llima@v2com.mobi
@leomrlima
www.v2com.mobi

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