"Preventing denial of service attacks, providing load-balancing, and monitoring the usage of a given resource are all difficult to do in the current version of the Java platform. In general, these and other features cannot be provided without going beyond the Java language proper, through mechanisms such as native code or shell scripts that ask the OS to handle matters related to resource management. The lack of a standard, programmatic way to partition resources available to virtual machine(s) among Java applications has led to a number of ad-hoc solutions," the document reads.

A public draft of JSR 284 is expected in early-November, with a three-week voting period likely for December. The specification could be completed by January.