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M. Schoeberl, J. Vitek:
"Garbage collection for safety critical Java";
Vortrag: Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES), Vienna, Austria; 26.09.2007 - 28.09.2007; in: "Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Java technologies for real-time and embedded systems", ACM, (2007), 978-59593-813-8; S. 85 - 93.

The Real-time Specification for Java and the upcoming, and more restricted, Safety Critical Java standard have been designed to allow programmers to avoid pauses caused by automatic memory management algorithms. Dynamic memory is user-managed using a region-based allocation scheme known as scoped memory areas. However, usage of those scoped memories is cumbersome and often leads to runtime errors. In this paper we focus on the safety critical subset of the Real-time Specification for Java and propose a real-time garbage collector that can be scheduled like a normal real-time thread with a deadline monotonic assigned priority. The restricted programming model offered by Safety Critical Java allows us to substantially simplify the collector. Our proposal has been implemented and evaluated in the context of the JOP project. JOP is a Java processor especially designed for embedded real-time systems. The architecture is optimized for worst-case execution time (WCET) instead of the usual optimization for average case execution time. Execution time of bytecodes is known cycle accurate.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1288940.1288953