Chapter 21. Recommended Practices

Ideally this chapter would be full of sage advice developed over years of experience with the Real-Time Specification for Java. It is not. I wrote this book while the RTSJ and its reference implementation were solidifying into a final specification. I have the “advantage” of having spent many hours struggling with features that did not make it into the final specification, and I know why the features of the RTSJ were included.

The RTSJ enhances the Java platform in some fundamental ways, but it is still the Java platform. The naming conventions, object-oriented ...

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