You could always force garbage collection to happen more often so as to limit the time it takes, or you could write your code in such a way as to not need garbage collection virtually at all. At any rate, I think Java's user agreement states something like don't use this language in mission critical or potentially life threatinging situations. :-)

CMU's </a href="http://www.teambots.org/">Teambots</a> multi-robot development software thingy is written in Java.

I wonder if that means that it's not for mission critical apps either....;)

remind me to press "preview" next time....

I always do... er, uh really, really. Don't you believe me?