For several years now, real-time versions of Java from smaller companies such as Aonix, Aicas and Apogee Software have jousted for market share. Now, large companies such as Sun Microsystems Inc. and ...

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I remember well the media feeding frenzy launched by Sun Microsystems at the Embedded Systems Conference in 1998 or 1999. Java mugs were everywhere for the taking, and huge Java banners flew over the ...

SAN FRANCSICO — Sun Microsystems is rolling out a new and speedier version of its real-time Java software. The Sun Java Real Time Systems 2.0 promises latencies of just a few hundred microseconds.

The JavaOne conference, held May 6-9 in San Francisco and organized by Sun Microsystems, brought together developers from industry, education, and other markets, filling the Moscone Convention Center ...

A good working definition of safety-critical Java code is that it issoftware that must be certified according to DO-178B or equivalentguidelines. Certification guidelines impose strict limits on ...

Javolution creator Jean-Marie Dautelle discusses different methods to reduce the worst-case execution time of Java applications by leveraging the extra processing power of multicore systems. The ...