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by Wolf Paulus.
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Embedded Devices
When working on embedded devices, I occasionally do some C
programming. Writing a driver allowing downloading images from a
digital camera into an 8-bit Microcontroller required even some
assembler coding. Anyway, besides those adventurous expeditions
I'm pretty much a hardcore Java coder - if you hadn't heard.
Mobile Devices
Sun Micro's Java Micro Edition (J2ME, Java subset for small consumer
and embedded devices with limited capabilities) and Qualcomm's Binary Runtime
Environment for Wireless (BREW, runtime environment running at the
firmware level (CDMA chipset) and available only to CDMA-based
wireless devices sporting Qualcomm processors) are the two
technologies at hand when developing an application targeting a mobile
device. J2ME and BREW compete on the execution platform (phone, PDA,
etc.) but also through different distribution and billing systems as
well as through their respective developer communities.
But there is a lot going on currently in the mobile devices space:
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