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The Real-Time Specification for Java: Technical Overview
Greg Bollella, IBM, USA

Abstract

Over the past year a team of 7 primary engineers and 14 consulting engineers, from as many companies, developed the Real-Time Specification for Java. The RTSJ is currently preliminary and will be finalized later this year when the reference implementation and test suite are complete. This talk will briefly detail the technical aspects of the enhancements to scheduling, memory management, synchronization, asynchronous event handling, asynchronous transfer of control, asynchronous thread termination, and physical memory access defined by the RTSJ. The enhancements to these areas are considered by the expert group to be sufficient to allow Java programmers to reason about the temporal behavior of their programs to the extent necessary for most real-time domains.


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