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Java™ 2 Micro Edition Application Development
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Java™ 2 Micro Edition Application Development

by Michael Kroll, Stefan Haustein
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 10m
English
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J2ME Configurations and Profiles

Obviously, the standard Java libraries are just too big for the Java 2 Micro Edition. Once the KVM was available, the next logical step was to define appropriate libraries. But just downsizing the standard libraries was not sufficient: The target devices have many special requirements that also must be covered by libraries.

For example, many PDAs and all cellular phones do not have a file system. Instead, data is stored persistently in simple databases in buffered RAM or flash memory. Obviously, a KVM library would need to provide access to this kind of storage. Moreover, the specific needs diverge for the potential KVM devices. A set top box (a device that decodes interactive TV signals) does not have much in ...

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