With the rise of Sun’s Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME), companies that want to develop applications specifically for embedded devices now have a language that allows them to do so. Unfortunately, what’s ...

The Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) gives Java developers the opportunity to leverage their skills onto a wide variety of mobile devices. Of course, mobile devices are diverse in their capabilities and ...

With the promise of a billion Java-enabled wireless handsets in the market by 2006 (according to Ovum Research), the opportunities to profit from the development and sale of J2ME applications may seem ...

Before the Java language was known as Java, it was called Oak—a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, the idea of networked smart devices everywhere was ...

When Sun revamped its Java technology in an attempt to more closely match a developer's target platform, the Java platform was split into three specialized platforms: the Standard, Enterprise, and ...