Everything about Real-time Java

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Real-time JavaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Compiler-assisted energy reduction of java real-time programsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in JavaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The real-time specification for JavaCited 313 times
5. Go sideways: List of Java APIsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Java virtual machineA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The real-time specification for Java

  G. Bollella, J. Gosling · 2000 · Computer · 313 citations

• A Java processor architecture for embedded real-time systems

  Martin Schoeberl · 2008 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 178 citations

• A real-time Java virtual machine with applications in avionics

  Austin Armbruster, Jason Baker, Antonio Cunei · 2007 · ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems · 84 citations

• A real-time Java chip-multiprocessor

  Christof Pitter, Martin Schoeberl · 2010 · ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems · 48 citations

• Simple Asynchronous Remote Invocations for Distributed Real-Time Java

  P. Basanta Val, M. Garcia-Valls, I. Estevez-Ayres · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 30 citations

• Adding real-time capabilities to Java

  Kelvin Nilsen · 1998 · Communications of the ACM · 27 citations

• Ravenscar‐Java: a high‐integrity profile for real‐time Java

  Jagun Kwon, Andy Wellings, Steve King · 2005 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 23 citations

• A Distributed Real-Time Java-Centric Architecture for Industrial Systems

  Pablo Basanta-Val, Marisol Garcia-Valls · 2014 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 22 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Compiler-assisted energy reduction of java real-time programs

  Manish Tewary, Zoran Salcic, Morteza Biglari-Abhari · 2022 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 3 citations

• Energy-aware scheduling, compilation, and execution of hard-real-time multi-task Java programs

  Manish Tewary, Zoran Salcic, Morteza Biglari-Abhari · 2022 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 2 citations

• Real Time Monitoring Using Robotic Total Station on the Outlet Slope of the Cisumdawu Tunnel, West Java

  R B Prasetya, H Hendarto · 2023 · IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science · 2 citations

• Evaluation of in-house dengue real-time PCR assays in West Java, Indonesia

  Denti R. Kinanti, Intan Ahmad, Ramadhani Putra · 2024 · PeerJ · 1 citations

• A Novel Java-Based Framework for Real-Time Financial Risk Assessment and Anomaly Detection Using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

  Aravind Raghu · 2025 · Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in JavaAndrew Wellings · 2004
• The real-time specification for JavaJames Gosling, Peter Dibble · 2000
• Real-time JavaPeter Dibble · 2002
• 📕Real-Time Java Platform ProgrammingDr. Peter C Dibble · 2008
• 📕Real Time, Embedded Java TechnologyRichard Zurawski · 2007
• Real-time Java programming with Java RTSGregory Bollella · 2009
• 📕Digital audio with JavaCraig A Lindley · 2000
• Distributed Embedded And Realtime Java SystemsAndy Wellings · 2012

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