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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Austin, Texas — Setting up a competition with Sun Microsystems' real-time Java effort, IBM Corp. researchers have developed a real-time Java platform that includes a garbage collector with claimed ...

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 ...

I hear from many embedded programmers that their hard real time projects are always done in C because that is the only way to get real time response. Many even shy away from C++ and C# or Java are ...