Real-Time Java™ Platform Programming

Chapter 12. Real-Time Threads

• Creation

• Scheduling

• Periodic Threads without Handlers

• Periodic Threads with Handlers

• Periodic Threads with Handlers

• Interactions with Normal Threads

• Changing the Scheduler

The work of real-time Java takes place in real-time threads and in asynchronous event handlers (which are a lot like real-time threads.) The javax.realtime. RealtimeThread class extends java.lang.thread so real-time threads can be used wherever a thread is required, but many of the features of the RTSJ are only available from real-time threads:

• Extended priorities

• Scoped memory

• Service for asynchronously interrupted exceptions

• Periodic scheduling

• Any nonpriority scheduling supplied by the platform

Other features of the RTSJ will probably appear in ordinary ...