Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform

Section 1.1.  The Wireless Internet Revolution...

The wireless communications industry has seen rapid growth in the past several years. This has made wireless communication one of the fastest growing technology areas...

Why Java™ Technology for Wireless Devices? The wireless Internet revolution will transform wireless devices from voice-oriented communication devices with relatively static, hard-coded functionality into extensible, Internet-enabled...

The Java programming language was initially targeted towards consumer devices, especially the interactive TV market. However, over time the Java platform evolved more and more...

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...