Java Technology and Real Time

Programmers of embedded real-time systems are the most obvious members of the real-time community, but nearly every programmer deals with real time some of the time. Everybody who codes user interfaces should worry about consistent response time. Telecommunication equipment has deadlines imposed by regulations. Trains, airplanes, elevators, trucks, packages in a delivery system, programming on television, packets flowing through a network, children preparing to meet the school bus—all of these systems involve timing constraints, and all of them (except, probably, getting children to the bus on time) are likely to involve computers.

Real-time programming is like any other kind of programming, but arguably harder. ...

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