Real-Time Java™ Programming with Java RTS

Preface

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.”

—Leonard Bernstein

AS this book is being written, the age of real-time programming, especially with Java, has only begun. In the near future, however, we predict that real-time Java—namely, the Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) from Sun Microsystems—will be used predominantly in real-time application areas, such as software in the financial world, critical control systems, manufacturing lines, military and other government systems, and so on. This prediction arrives in the shadow of a time when Java was once considered “too slow” to be used in the development of mission-critical and other enterprise systems.

However, just as Java had proven quickly to ...