Introduction to the Special Issue on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems

摘要

Java has proven to be a popular language in application domains ranging from desktop applications to large enterprise servers. For almost a decade, the industrial and academic research community have collaborated to turn Java into a language suitable also for real-time processing. The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) and the upcoming definition of a Safety-Critical Java (SCJ) profile are standards that attempt to position Java as a key technology for developing applications with stringent time constraints. The International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems (JTRES) is dedicated to research on Java for embedded real-time systems. JTRES was started in 2003 and has been held yearly since. This special issue regroups selected and extended papers from the eighth workshop in the series. JTRES 2010 was organized in Prague, Czech Republic by researchers from Charles University and pPurdue University.