Re: [ts-7000] Re: java recommendations

["Don W. Carr" <>]

I know Kelvin Nilsen from my days at Iowa State University where he was a professor for a while, and where they started out in the research park before moving to Tempe. He is a very bright guy, but I wish they would figure out a way to open source at least the run-time or it will never take off in embedded devices. They will just slowly improve the standard JVM for embedded systems and Perc will become irrelevant if it is not open sourced. If they did open source it, they would become ubiquitous on embedded systems and would make a lot more on service and support. Heck, it would hasten the move to Java on embedded devices. If there was a JVM with real-time features on virtually all platforms, things would be a lot different.

Another small issue also is that with most real-time applications, you allocate objects once and never stop using them. Though it is good to have a good garbage collector, the garbage collection issue is not very big for most embedded real-time applications.

Don.

On 10/9/06, Jesse Off <> wrote: