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From: "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com>
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Subject: Re: real-time Java
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:23:27 +0200
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Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been hearing a lot lately about real-time Java. I must confess
>>I'm baffled about the motivation behind this endeavor. Would someone
>>please tell me what real-time Java will be able to do that Ada can't
>>do? Or what it will be able to do better than Ada? Thanks.
> 
> 
> Sure: bring a popular, thriving, employer-demanded language with a
> wealth of libraries and a robust built-in GUI into the real time
> arena.
> 
> xanthian.
> 
> How the heck you do that with a language subject to garbage collection
> is going to be an interesting thing to watch happen.  Some complaints
> in comp.lang.java.programmer mention Java going off to stew for whole
> minutes at a time.

If you are interested in how this can be achieved, have a look at
http://www.aicas.com/

They sell a real-time capable VM. Of course you cannot expect real-time
behaviour from a standard VM from Sun on a non-real-time OS like Windows.
Nevertheless the statement that Java stops for minutes to do some
garbage collection is simply wrong for modern VMs.

Michael