Chapter 29. Using JBuilder with J2ME

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At the JavaOne Conference in June 1999, Sun Microsystems announced a new edition of the Java 2 platform: the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). The purpose of the Micro Edition is to enable Java applications to run on small computing devices. This announcement revolutionized the handheld and personal phone industry and caused a frenzy among hardware producers and wireless network hosts to evaluate and create solutions that work with the J2ME specification. In this chapter, we discuss what J2ME is and what it is not. We look closely at one of its key pieces, a new virtual machine optimized for small devices. We also look ...

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