Acknowledgments
“Better late than never, but never late is better.”
—Unknown
THIS journey began with a short lecture on Java RTS, given by Greg Bollella in August 2006 in Menlo Park, California. I was attending this lecture as part of a broader Sun training session, but Greg’s lecture was the high point for me. I had done development work on real-time systems in the past, but never with Java. Greg’s discussion of deadlines, predictability, Java’s garbage collection, and so on intrigued me, and began my feverish interest in the topic.
Attending this lecture with me was Craig Ellis (my manager at the time), who promptly gave me and two of my peers the task of building a proof-of-concept application that we would use to demonstrate Java RTS to ...
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