WWW,
An interesting sideshow that may well have a bearing on our wave.
Our new bedfellows having it out about "realtime Java".
techweb.com
To anyone with any tech knowledge:
1 Wave is now an "embedded system" isn't it?, and possibly would have an interested to see this issue resolved? Aside: any exhibition planned at the Embedded Systems Conference I wonder?
2. To quote (at the end of the article)regarding java
"In a technical presentation given to the NIST group, engineers from Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Rockwell International detailed some of the key issues.
Scheduling of software threads and synchronization need a more rigorous definition, the Rockwell team wrote. In addition, interrupt-handling is hampered by a lack of pointers to functions. Asynchronous signal features are missing from Java, they said.
On the hardware front, access to device drivers and memory is at too low a level, they maintained."
Question is: Since the EMBASSY-wavemeter will reside on the I/O chipset and is therefore a "peripheral" to some extent, and since metering is in fact a very realtime activity, does this mean the supporting software technology is not ready yet?
Could this explain some of the "yawn-factor" about the announcement?
Sincerely,
Paul |
