Gos4j is a way of organising processing priorities
based on goals. Each goal is prioritised to be
processed based on its time to complete and its
progress towards that goal. Deadlines are used to
act as the target completion time for a goal, and
can be expressed in either relative or absolute
terms. It can be used to support an unknown
processing environment with real time constraints.
A typical example of this would be in an
application programming set-up, where user code
would run alongside your code, and so fixed
priority scheduling may not be efficient. Gos4j
can easily reschedule threads to meet as many of
the specified constraints as possible, so overall
performance will degrade gracefully and
conflicting time constraints will be handled
equitably.
