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To: Allen Benn who wrote (1683)	8/11/1997 8:27:00 PM
From: Boplicity	of 10309

Allen Re: Sun's EmbeddedJava snip> Sun Microsystem's bid to reshape its Java programming language into a mainstay of the embedded-computing world is raising technical concerns among developers of real-time applications. Sun's effort will kick into high gear next month with the expected disclosure of its EmbeddedJava spec at the Embedded Systems Conference West in San Jose, Calif. Billed as a tightly wound subset of Java, EmbeddedJava is "designed specifically for severely resource-constrained environments," according to technical documents obtained from the company. But the real-time community is already buzzing with talk that EmbeddedJava will fall short in addressing several crucial real-time performance issues. Leading that list are purported deficiencies in the way the language performs garbage collection -- the freeing up of memory locations no longer needed by an application program -- and guaranteed context switching, or ensuring that a real-time event is handled within a known amount of time. <snip For the rest of the story: techweb.com Comments please on Java vs WIND. Greg

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