"Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

[davidalln]

I'm excited to dive into Java as an alternative after a subpar experience with LabVIEW this year. I do have a few questions about how much of the more advanced/third party Java solutions we can use that will still be executable on the cRIO. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to drop in and say hi to the people from Sun at the competition over the weekend.

For example, can we use Java-based wrappers and implementations for other languages such as JRuby (my guess is yes, because Java is compiled into bytecode anyways, so whatever third-party libraries used should be compiled with it)? And will there be the ability to use a testing framework such as JUnit (with the emulator, it might be possible. I'd just rather not have to build and load every time I need to test out a small tweak or new feature, especially in the process of developing said feature)?