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If PC dominated the beginning of 21st Century, popularity of mobile phones have shown a significant rise lately. The future seems to be rosy for mobile phones and similar gadgets. Naturally, entrepreneurs, developers, companies from across the globe are putting in their best attempts to cash on this opportunity. J2ME application development has emerged as one of the popular segments that mobile application developers are focusing on. j2me or the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition is a technology that focuses on small devices with limited memory i.e. the wireless devices and the embedded devices that are ubiquitous these days like PDA's or personal digital assistants, TV Set top boxes, cell phones, printers and other consumer devices. The use of Java technology is standardized by it in wireless devices. Technically, it's a mobile application development platform that facilitates the developers with an access to object oriented programming language using which the developer can create J2ME apps or applications.
Users or the public can then download such apps from the stores to their cell phones, such that the apps go directly from the j2me environment to the cell phone/PDA's (for example, J2Me to Blackberry , in case the cell phone used is Blackberry).
Advantages of J2ME
1. First of all, its compatibility and support with the various platforms should be highlighted as its major advantage. The j2me applications, written in Java are platform independent i.e. they can be run in any other platform too
2. It has an extremely friendly user-interface
3. It offers robust security
4. It offers support for offline and networked applications, which in turn can be downloaded
5. It has several standardized (through the JCP Java Community Process) specific components defined by the industry. It also has built-in network protocols
6. Users aren't levied with heavy license fees as it's an open source platform
7. Not just is it easily accessible, developers can easily create reusable codes and modular programs with it. It also understands the exception specifications' concept and is open to it. Stable Java standards aid developers in creating multilevel applications for enterprises through the component based approach. Thus, it's a developer friendly platform too.
