Parallel and high performance stream processing software platform capable of scaling over a range of hardware capability

Agile and automated reconfiguration in response to changing user objectives, available data, and the intrinsic variability of system resource availability

Incremental tasking in the face of rapidly changing data forms and types

Secure, privacy-compliant, and auditable execution environment

And take a look at the IBM press release announcing System S a "stream computing" software directly based on this research.

The Java™ platform will be celebrating its 14th birthday soon and one side-effect when a successful and ubiquitous language reaches this kind of milestone is the widespread proliferation of libraries, tools, and ideas — this bonus can leave many newcomers to the Java language adrift in a sea of material.