Thinking in G » Podcasts http://thinkinging.com an unfiltered stream of data flow consciousness Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Java Real-Time and Wireless Sensors http://thinkinging.com/2007/05/29/java-real-time-and-wireless-senors/ http://thinkinging.com/2007/05/29/java-real-time-and-wireless-senors/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 10:00:26 +0000 Jim Kring http://thinkinging.com/2007/05/29/java-real-time-and-wireless-senors/ While listening to Java Posse (a great podcast that I love to listen to while driving around town), I learned that Sun has just released Java Real-Time System 2.0. I don’t program in Java but I find it very fascinating to learn more about how the Java platform works and what tools are out there. So, I thought it was very interesting that Java has a real-time system.

And, it seems that Sun is starting to get into hardware too. For example, the Sun Spot project is a wireless embedded device (that runs Java) intended to be used as a wireless sensor.

java.jpgHmmm… I wonder how long until Sun has a graphical programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

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