Today’s embedded systems are more demanding and varied than ever. With application areas as diverse as fleet telematics, industrial automation, civil avionics, and military field equipment and network infrastructure, project success depends upon equally diverse tools.

But one thing that hasn’t changed is the need for efficient, dependable, and predictable software development - the kinds of benefits commonly associated with the Java development paradigm.

We interview Kelvin Nilsen to gain insight into the challenges facing today's mission critical developers.

Kelvin is Aonix's CTO.