Those classes are present in the MIDP APIs along with a modified subset of the Java programming language. The classes included in the MIDP API will be discussed in more detail later in this article.

Sun is giving its Java programming environment a stronger kick, with improvements to its capabilities for both enterprise-grade computers and a myriad of sub-PC devices. On Tuesday, ahead of its ...

Its story began well before its public debut. The origins go back to 1991, when a small team of Sun Microsystems engineers—James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton—embarked on what was then ...

As a result, Java offers the ability integrate technologies from the server to the wireless device, Martin said. In addition, Web services promises developers free, open standards in that environment.

Classes exist in the Java.net library that allow for the use of UDP (user datagram protocol) to communicate over the Internet, but we won't be considering them here. TCP is a connection-based protocol ...

I spoke later that day with Sun Fellow and Vice President James Gosling, original designer of the Java language, about the implications of having this kind of interactive power on handheld devices ...

Smart mobile devices---the very things the Java overlords had envisioned 15 years earlier---were actually starting to become a thing. And Java was running on many of them.

In the early development of the language, the team focused on creating a tool for mobile devices, but that quickly changed when version 1.0 of Java was released for public consumption in 1996.