Reuters Chooses Real-Time Java

The Transactions Platform group at Reuters chose Sun's Java RTS for its next generation trading system platform.

When predictability and low latency are important issues to you, more so than performance and throughput, solutions based on the Real-Time Specification for Java are for you. Sun and IBM are currently the only vendors that offer true real-time Java implementations. However, both vendors have their own slants on the implementation of the specification; IBM bundles the software with their hardware; Sun is much more flexible but until recently has only supported Solaris. Sun is adding Linux support; see http://www.ddj.com/java/206101018 for more information.

Reuters has chosen Sun's implementation based on their latency numbers (max latency of 10 to 20 microseconds for no-heap real-time threads), and guaranteed predicability. Regardless of which vendor was ultimately chosen, the victory goes to Java, as it is now proving itself in the few remaining areas traditionally reserved for C/C++ development. Companies are discovering that they can leverage their Java programmer talent and code-base in low latency, deterministic applications, such as data-feed processing and order processing.

“Reuters Group has a wide range of systems that use Java technology as part of the solution to deliver core services to our customers. We wanted a Java technology-based solution that could address our demanding, and growing, requirements for predictability and low-latency, as well as enable us to leverage our existing code base and Java technology expertise. We look forward to working with Sun as we deploy the Sun Java Real-Time System as part of our market-facing projects,” said Andrew Cunningham, Global Head of Transactions Platform Group, Sales & Trading Division at Reuters. “

To read more about this, see http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080204/20080204005482.html?.v=1

Happy coding!
-EJB

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