They aren't standards yet, but these efforts will pay off in embedded Java for safety- and mission-critical applications. Under the auspices of the Open Group, Java is taking a turn for the ...

Standard Java has been found unsuitable for many embedded applications, but real-time and mission-critical enhancements are remolding the language. Hard real-time Java was formalized in JSR-1. It ...

Those of us who know and understand a lot more than that and have some experience under our belts know that this is a commonplace problem for many other software frameworks as well, it's nothing new.

A good working definition of safety-critical Java code is that it issoftware that must be certified according to DO-178B or equivalentguidelines. Certification guidelines impose strict limits on ...