Summary: Yesterday, Sun's Greg Bollella and Dave Hofert made the case for real-time Java in enterprise applications where the exact timing of an operation is important. Today, Bollella and Hofert focus on the details of how real-time requirements are achieved in the JVM with the real-time garbage collector, a new feature of Sun's latest real-time Java VM implementation, RT 2.0. They also explain the concept of no-heap real-time threads (NHRT) that are never impacted by the garbage collector.