Micro Java™ Game Development

Chapter 8. J2ME Overview

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Trinity of Java Platforms

• It's a Small World After All

• Profiles and Configurations

• Connected in a Limited Way: The CLDC

• The Mobile Profile

Let's warp back to 1995, the year when Java first came out. Mobile phones were rare, brick-like gizmos, and the Internet was just emerging outside the realm of university and government geeks.

A lot has happened since then. The Web business grew, expanded beyond all reason, exploded, then established itself as a stable mass medium. And mobile phones swept the world, especially throughout Europe and Asia, where phones are owned by two-thirds of the population. It is now expected that the total number of wireless subscribers will exceed one billion by the end of 2002, and ...