Title :
Systems programming in Java
Author_Institution :
Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Java programming language has been widely accepted as a general purpose language for developing portable applications, toolkits, and applets. With so much activity in industry and academia in these user-level areas, is it surprising that Java is also an equally capable systems programming language? This article describes our experiences at JavaSoft with using Java as a systems-level programming language during the development of JavaOS. The author discusses the motivations for using Java and shows code examples to demonstrate various system-level primitives, including an Ethernet device driver
Keywords :
high level languages; operating systems (computers); systems analysis; Java; Java programming language; JavaOS; JavaSoft; general purpose language; portable applications; system-level primitives; systems programming; Debugging; Ethernet networks; Java; Mice; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Programming profession; Protection; Protocols; Runtime;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
