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Summary re: Firm Real-Time Java
•The J2SE standard for soft-real-time development provides the greatest availability of:
–Off-the-shelf libraries (J2SE and 3rd parties)
–Developer tool support, including compilers, debuggers, run-time profilers, code coverage analyzers
–General ease of development and maintenance due to portability, error avoidance, encapsulation, and scalability
–Existing developer expertise, reference material, and training resources
•Runs on traditional embedded architectures with a variety of popular RTOS
•Timing precision to within approximately 1 ms
•Requires more memory and faster CPU than C