Larry has over 2 years of Java server side development, along with some light Swing GUI development to support monitoring of the server performance. Further, Larry was the architecture for a large scale multicast transport system used to delivery video content via satellite with a terrestial backhaul to hundreds of clients simultaneously.

The acceptance of Java in the embedded world has been mixed. It has gained popularity in the cell phone world to allow one application to run on many devices. But implementing a JVM on a small device requires significant processing and memory capability, the cost of development must be weighed against the hardware upcharge