Systems programming in Java
Scott J. Ritchie · IEEE Micro · 1997
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.