Introduction
You can treat this book as two closely-related books. Chapters 1 through 7 are background that might help understand the RTSJ. The remainder of the book is about the RTSJ itself. If you already understand real-time scheduling, or you don't care about scheduling and want to get directly to the code, you can start at Chapter 8 and read from that point on. Other than possibly skipping the first seven chapters, I do not recommend skipping around. Few of the chapters can stand by themselves. After you've skimmed the book once, it can work as reference material, but I suggest that you start by reading the book sequentially.
This book is intended to serve as part of a set comprising three elements: the RTSJ specification, the reference implementation, ...
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