When building a system which needs to respond very consistently and fast, is having a garbage collector a potential problem? I remember horror stories from years ago where the typical example alwa...

I noticed that Real Time Java 2.2 was released back in September, seems to have come a long way from when I last looked at it. However, does anybody know of any real world uses, commercial or...

How would one synchronize one real-time thread with a normal thread in Java? Take for example a real-time thread that calculates some temperatures and the GUI thread that has to collect those numbe...