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SAN FRANCSICO — Sun Microsystems is rolling out a new and speedier version of its real-time Java software. The Sun Java Real Time Systems 2.0 promises latencies of just a few hundred microseconds.

March 26, 2002 — If you managed to sit through the entire opening keynote address at the JavaOne Conference and Expo on Monday morning, you would have caught the first glimpse of a new demo from Sun — ...

The recent progress of the 2.0 Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) has consequences far beyond the traditional real-time programming world. This impact belies the reputation RTSJ has among many ...

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...

Java has become the preferred programming language in the traditional information-technology domain. That's because it offers improved developer productivity, greater software reuse, lower ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems released its "real-time" version of Java this week, software designed for devices that must be able to respond to high-priority events. Sun's Java Real-Time System runs ...