I believe his point was they implemented hard-real-time, embedded Java with GC on some components that was fielded successfully. That refutes any objection to whether it can be done. At that point, we're talking whether the new project can pull that off on what kind of hardware with what constraints.
EDIT to clear up two sub-conversations here: what Aonix pulled off for hard-real-time Java; that there's also hard-real-time GC's for embedded. Example of latter.
EDIT to clear up two sub-conversations here: what Aonix pulled off for hard-real-time Java; that there's also hard-real-time GC's for embedded. Example of latter.
http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/03/real-time-garbage-colle...