San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation has announced that they will deliver a complete Reference Implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java (JSR-00001) to the Expert Group of the Java Community Process (JCP) on April 30th, 2001 for its evaluation. This release is a significant milestone in the open and inclusive JCP process that will include a reference implementation, a final release of the specification, which has gone through public review and comment, and a test suite. The Real-Time Specification for Java extends the capability of Java technology to control the predictable behavior of embedded systems. TimeSys, represented in the Real-Time Specification for Java Expert Group by Carnegie Mellon University Professor and TimeSys Co-Founder, Dr. Raj Rajkumar, and VP of Engineering Dr. Doug Locke, brings to the project its experience in guaranteed QoS and real-time systems.

As delegated by the Real-Time Specification for Java Expert Group, TimeSys is providing an implementation prototype for the standard that, in combination with a Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), will enable other implementations to measure conformity to the standard. TimeSys will therefore play an important role in providing the protocols necessary for compliance to this groundbreaking real-time standard.

Expected by its authors to be the first technologically and commercially successful real-time programming language, the Real-Time Specification for Java focuses on the core real-time issues of managing computing resources in order to satisfy application timeliness requirements, rather than more general topics of concurrence. The Java platform's promise of “Write Once, Run Anywhere,” together with the Java technology's popularity, offers far greater cost-savings potential in the real-time and embedded domains than in those of desktops and servers. In addition to cost-savings, the RTSJ establishes a consensus of requirements and a common lexicon for real-time computing, paving the way for the future of real-time computing practice.

 
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