In an attempt to capitalize on the huge opportunity in the embedded systems market, and the dominance of the Java programming platform, Oracle has unwrapped a new set of offerings facilitating the ...

You probably hold with the conventional view that the Java language cannot be used for embedded programming. According to this view, implementations of the Java language are (1) too slow, (2) too big, ...

As an alternative to rewriting the same code, many software development environments provide a library tool that organizes frequently used code. Once developers finish debugging some reusable code, ...

The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...

In fact, the Java virtual machine can be implemented in software or hardware, or varying degrees of both. This flexibility in the specification for the Java virtual machine was intended to allow for ...

This article discusses how to use GCJ, part of the GCC compiler suite, in an embedded Linux project. Like all tools, GCJ has benefits, namely the ability to code in a high-level language like Java, ...

TimeSys has completed the Reference Implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). Accepted under the Java Community Process (JCP), it's downloadable for free from TimeSys' Web site.