Resource Consumption Interfaces for JavaTM Application Programming − a Proposal

Software systems in many circumstances need an awareness of their resource impact on the underlying executing platform, so they can satisfy externally imposed performance requirements. Programs constituting such systems need the ability to control their consumption of resources provided by the platform. This document summarizes the current status of a proposal being prepared to define an extensible, flexible, and widely applicable resource consumption API for the Java platform. Control over resource consumption is developed using a set of abstractions that allow the statement of reservations and constraints for individual resources utilized by the executing application.