What’s a Grid?
The computer on your desktop, the one you’re using to read this email, only has so much processing power, only so much speed. Your vice-president, who’s gazing out the window and thinking about his golf game, has computing power to spare. If your company had a grid set up, your computer could draw unused processing power from his computer to speed up your number-crunching software.
Benefits of using Java Development for Embedded Computing, part 2
Executing Code from ROM
Desktop JVMs usually can’t execute Java code directly from ROM. Normally, Java classes are first loaded into RAM, verified, and then executed by the JVM.
Benefits of using Java Development for Embedded Computing
This is the first in a two-part series on the benefits of using the Java development and runtime environment for embedded computing. Java, with its “write once, run anywhere” paradigm, is ideal for embedded computing because of its portability, reliability, security, and Internet capabilities. However, Java can present some challenges for embedded-systems developers.