Configurations and Profiles
A configuration specifies three basic elements:
a set of Java programming language features
a set of Java virtual machine features
a set of supported Java libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs)
The creators of J2ME have defined only two configurations to avoid a fragmented landscape of incompatible platforms. The two configurations that exist currently represent the two categories of pervasive devices you saw earlier in this chapter, namely:
personal, intermittently connected mobile devices— supported by the Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC)
constantly connected network devices— supported by the Connected Device Configuration (CDC)
Theoretically, a configuration could specify the very same ...
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