[SatNews] DTV software specialist, Ocean Blue Software, has released its Triton(tm) MHEG-5 and CI Plus Authoring Tool as an open source and royalty-free product for application authors and developers. The tool, developed by Ocean Blue as an MHEG-5 and CI Plus (CI+) application author, contains many of the features commonly found in professional integrated development environments (IDE) and allows developers to create dynamic and visually impressive graphical user interface applications for digital TV (DTV) platforms.

Ocean Blue is releasing all the source code for the tool to the open source community free of charge. The benefits of Triton Authoring tool include...

• Rapid prototyping of MHEG and CI+ applications
• Construction of professional GUI applications
• Speed of UI application design
• Reduced total cost of ownership for UI applications
• Simplified UI application development oriented around tools designers are familiar with In-built code editor
• Generation of MHEG-5 and CI+ application code at the click of a button.

Ocean Blue Software has also developed a PC Simulator tool which is also available for purchase. The simulator allows developers to test and debug their application on their personal computer.