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Till date, you came across java when you visited a site or ordered something on eBay or playing a game on your mobile phone. Java is still penetrating and now its gonna come home. Its gonna be on your TV. Really!
A national middleware platform for cable set-top boxes and digital cable-ready televisions is finally edging into the mainstream. It's called OCAP, for OpenCable Applications Platform. It's based on the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), and specifically on the Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and two related profiles, the Foundation Profile and the Personal Basis Profile.
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