Standard Java has been found unsuitable for many embedded applications, but real-time and mission-critical enhancements are remolding the language. Hard real-time Java was formalized in JSR-1.

Leaked VA emails provided a list of 'mission critical' jobs that will be kept: Chaplain, Electronics Technician, Pest Controller, Elevator Mechanic, and Laundry and Dry Cleaning Equipment Repairing.

The non-profit Partnership for Public Service says federal agencies need to fill nearly 200,000 "mission-critical" jobs, including tens of thousands at the Department of Homeland Security and the ...