Re: Real time Java? Huh?

[dewar@gnat.com]

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In article <71uc8n$lu1$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
  "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Joseph <**********@*******.**> a �crit dans le message
> <36428b55.0@blushng.jps.net>...
> >I missed way too much of this thread.   Java as a real
time language?
> >Tell me that this is a hoax, please.
> >
> At an AFNOR-Ada (French standardization body) we had a
discussion
> about this yesterday.
> It seems that by real-time Java, people really mean
"embedded Java",
> i.e. in SmartCards for example. When I asked how
extensive dynamic
> allocation and garbage collector could be used in
smart-cards,
> people told me that there were restrictions, like only
final classes
> with only final methods... When I asked why use Java
rather than
> C, and why not call such "classes" packages, I had no
answer...
> sigh.



There are very good reasons for using JVM based approaches
for real time embedded systems, and you should not just
assume that garbage collection is out of the question in
such systems. This is why it is so important that we have
Ada 95 systems that target the JVM!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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