AERO-PROJECT

AERO is a project with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a software development infrastructure for satellite applications. The Aero project is developed by a consortium lead by Astrium SaS including Astrium Toulouse, Aicas and the University of Linkoping... AERO - Architecture for Enhanced Reprogrammability and Operability... AERO-VM is a standard Java bytecode interpreter and an ahead of time compiler for hard real-time embedded space systems. The AERO-VM provides hard real-time guarantees for all primitive Java operations. This enables all of Java's features to be used for on-board hard real-time tasks. This includes features essential to object-oriented software development like dynamic allocation of objects, inheritance, and dynamic binding. Sophisticated automatic class file compaction and dead-code elimination techniques are involved to reduce the code footprint to the bare minimum

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