JavaOne Speeding Up With Slot Cars

The Slot Car Programming Challenge will do more than let coders experience the thrill of playing with 1960's era toys; it offers the chance for people to learn more about the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). RTSJ looks like a Myers-Briggs outlined how Sun will overcome the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding RTSJ - They're going to let programmers race little cars around a track. Quite frankly, more of the world's problems should be solved this way. Bollella explained in his interview on Sun's site how RTSJ addresses controlling physical devices and the three factors involved with doing so: sensing, control, and actuation. "With RTSJ, you have to pay explicit attention to memory consumption and object creation in a particular memory area so that you don't get exceptions," Bollella said of a common challenge to programmers. His work and that of others focuses on making those RTSJ implementations easier to use. But even the most well-crafted application will give up some of its average throughput performance. The new challenge for Sun is getting programmers to do more with RTSJ and increase the number of those adopting it for real world use. At the Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |