real-time-java

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 always was an action game where your character would stop for a few seconds in mid-jump, when the garbage collector would do its cleanup. We are some years further, but I'm wondering if this is still an issue. I read about the new garbage collector in .Net 4, but it still seems a lot like a big black box, and you just have to trust everything will be fine. If you have a system which always has to be quick

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 academic to date? http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/index.jsp andersoj I offered some publicly-disclosed users of real-time Java in answer to another question ; I'll reproduce here: The Real-Time Specification for Java now has several commercial-grade implementations: Sun/Oracle's JavaRTS (now unavailable , it appears Oracle has disbanded the JavaRTS team and made the product unavailable,

I am very new to java and only start to use Eclipse to run some real-time java program. I could not find javax.realtime to import, I get the error: The import javax.realtime cannot be resolved Any idea how to resolve this? Do I need to download any extra package or change some project setup? This package is not a part of built in packages. You will need additional Jar file for this package. Check this link out. Yes, you need a real-time Java library. There are some intended for embedded systems , a commercial version from Oracle with a trial download, etc. Note that, to actually get real-time