Foreword

   "If a program is useful,it will have to be changed."

ACM SIGPLAN Notices (vol 2, no. 2), 1965

"To attain knowledge, add things every day;to obtain wisdom, remove things every day."

—Lao-tsu, Tao Te Ching

"One must learn by doing the thing; For though you think you know it,you have no certainty until you try."

—Sophocles, Trachiniae

With the delivery of the Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME™), Java technology has come full circle. The Java technology we know today originally sprang from a project whose goal was to investigate the potential impact of digital technologies outside the mainstream of the computer industry. It was clear that this big expanse of interesting territory was the space close to everyday people. Consumer electronics, ...

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