Thread: Sun porting Java UI API to N800
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2007-05-04 , 20:30
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Originally Posted by frethop View Post
This will add new applications to the N800. This is a port of J2ME: Java 2 Micro Edition. It's not the standard edition of Java that runs on desktop PCs and the like.

I think it's interesting that Sun chose to implement J2ME instead of J2SE. It perhaps reveals what they think of the N800: a phone-like device with phone-like resources.
That's a very wide spread mis-understanding. What you describe is J2ME CLDC aka Phone ME Feature.

What Sun are porting is J2ME CDC aka Phone ME Advanced. CDC is the basis of the versions of Java used in Blu-ray players and TV set-top boxes. Personal Profile (mentioned in the Sun blog) builds on CDC to create the successor to PersonalJava which was found on the old Nokia Communicator devices.

Technically CDC is considerably closer to J2SE than it is to CLDC. There's even a subset of swing which can run on it although I don't think that's been open sourced yet.