To date, real-time Java often has been “soft” real-time. As Anders Flodin, director of strategic alliances at Aneas (Stockholm), said, “Java is not going to be used anytime soon for projects that ...

Sun's Java Real-Time System runs all the programs written for Java Standard Edition, but also has extensions that guarantee the software can respond within a certain amount of time to critical events.

Sun demonstrated the software, code-named Project Mackinaw, at the JavaOne conference a year ago and made the announcement at this year's version of the same conference here. The real-time Java ...