Sunday, 11 May 2008
JavaOne 2008: Real-time Java Hands-on Lab
« Béarnaise in the Land of the Free | Main | JavaOne 2008: Day Two »According to James Gosling himself, JSR-001, a.k.a. the Real-time Specification for Java, is the first and only JSR he actually worked on.
LAB-7420 Opening Slide
This particular flavour of the Java run-time only works with real-time operating systems, such as OpenSolaris or Linux.
Even for an experienced Java programmer, real-time programming takes getting used to. The real-time constraints impact the platform profoundly, especially in the area of memory management. The complexities of dealing with the Java garbage collector in real-time scenarios have led to explicit memory management strategies which tend to feel... alien.
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