Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has announced “new technology that lets developers combine Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Lite and Java ME into a single Java application”, reports PC World. The basic premise is that Flash has some nice user-interface capabilities but lacks some of the features of Java, such as access to Bluetooth, WiFi and secure payments. With the new system they can “mix and match” different components from both systems. SE will release a set of APIs for the capability in the second half of this year, and the resulting applications whill be treated like typical Java apps within SE’s developer platform. The aim is to have the technology on all the manufacturer’s handsets, and the company plans to share the technology with the broader community, either via standards, open source or a combination of the two.
Tricia adds: Another reason why you’d want to disguise a Flash application as a Java application is because carriers often don
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