1.4. J2ME™ Standardization Efforts

Once Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Palm Computing, RIM, Siemens, and other device manufacturers became interested in the KVM development effort, standardization was necessary in order to guarantee interoperability between the different kinds of Java Powered™ devices from different manufacturers. Two Java Community Process (JCP) standardization efforts were launched in the fall of 1999.

The first of these standardization efforts, Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), was launched on October 1, 1999. The goal of this effort was to define the “lowest common denominator” Java platform for a wide variety of small, connected, resource-constrained devices. This specification defines the minimum required complement ...

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