Kayak is an application for CAN bus diagnosis and monitoring. Its main goals are a simple interface and platform independence. It is implemented in pure Java and has no platform specific dependencies. Kayak is based on SocketCAN and the connection to a SocketCAN bus takes place using TCP/IP and a socketcand server. Therefore the bus access is network transparent and can be shared with multiple users.
Kayak uses the open CAN definition format kcd. Existing .dbc CAN definitions can be converted to kcd using CANBabel.