Jonathan Knudsen

The Java platform is undergoing the second revolution of its brief history. The first was the dramatic rise of servlets, the Java programs that are the building blocks of Web applications. Java's second revolution is in small devices...and it's happening right now. Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME) is Sun's name for a loose grouping of specifications that describe how to run Java on small devices, everything from mobile phones and pagers through set-top boxes and car navigation systems. Motorola, Nokia, and other device manufacturers are already producing devices that run the newest J2ME specifications. A the same time that Java is exploding into the small-device market, XML is the hottest word on the streets since Elvis. Developers the world over are struggling to catch up with a big pile of new acronyms, everything from SAX and DOM through XSLT and FOP. XML is a langua... (more)