Memory Management in a Java-written Operating System

Java applications are becoming increasingly popular for embedded devices, like cellphones or personal digital assistants. The reasons for this success are the properties of the Java language and environment: portability, type safety, automatic memory management and easy network downloading of code. In this context, writing a complete operating system in Java is interesting because the whole execution environment benefits from Java characteristics. This also removes the language barriers between the Java applications and the system services, usually written in C.