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ALTHOUGH A SINGLE wireleSS SOlution to render any document from the Internet to a small handset still eludes the mobile marketplace, Sun's delivery of its Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) development platform will certainly fuel the deployment of an increasing number of services on cell phones.
Sun also hopes the platform release will send the scent of Java wafting over the burgeoning array of mobile and embedded devices.
At the fifth annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco last week, BMW, Lucky Goldstar, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, and Sega were just a few of the participants demonstrating J2ME in their product lines.
Motorola showed off a prototype of its iDEN phone running J2ME with a number of corporate applications such as e-mail, expense reporting, and...