I'll be speaking at the Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems on September 23, 2009 in Madrid Spain. You can read more about it here:http://pan.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/jtres2009/program.html

 In summary the conference is about real-time developers who are interested in or who are already using Java in the real-time and embedded space. I'll be talking about some of my experiences with

In his blog today, Jonathan Schwartz announced top-secret Project Vector - or what will be known as the Java App Store when it's officially announced at JavaOne on June 2nd. Basically, Vector is an application store for all sorts of Java applications. As a developer, you can submit a Java application to be available for free or for a fee, Sun will take its cut, and the world is your marketplace.

Before he became a famed digital privacy (and security) expert, Richard M. Smith ran a little software company called Phar Lap that specialized in DOS extenders. Back in October 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal published his do-it-yourself article on creating your own weather station, highlighting the fun that could be had merging embedded devices with Internet technology.

Today, Sun released the Java Real-Time System, version 2.1. This version adds support for Linux with real-time kernels (namely SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time 10, and the soon-to-be-released Red Hat MRG), in addition to Solaris 10 on x86/x64 and SPARC. You can download an evaluation copy at http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/index.jsp.

To see me talking about Java RTS 2.1 for Linux,

I just returned from a family vacation where we cruised on Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas. The ship had two pool tables that were self-leveling. As the ship rocked, the pool tables' computers updated their positions in real-time to counteract the motion of the ship. I played and observed others, dozens of times, and it was always perfect.

Sun announced today that ITT is using Sun's Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) to build an earth-bound system to track items in Earth-orbit (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-04/sunflash.20080414.3.xml ).

 

Novell has recently introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (SLERT) version 10 (http://www.novell.com/products/realtime/), and has been showcasing it at its Brainshare 2008 conference (http://www.novell.com/brainshare/) in Salt Lake City this week.

This version of SUSE Linux contains kernel updates and POSIX real-time (http://www.xtrj.org/collection/posix_rtos.htm) support to run applications