What are Java Games?

Java games offer the possibility of countless new and exciting games for your mobile. Almost every type of game imaginable is a possibility.

Java games are programs written in a special programming language (J2ME - Java 2 Micro Edition) for devices like mobile phones. Due to the fact that Java is a full programming language in its own right, games are not the things that can be downloaded - in fact almost any kind of application is possible.

Java games are downloaded over WAP and because of the open nature of Java, there are countless developers coming up with new games all the time. Java is also platform indepedent, meaning that as long as your phone supports Java you can run them, whether it's a Nokia, Samsung or whatever.

Technical info:

Java was developed by Sun Microsystems as a high level programming language. Originally called Oak, it was not a success and in 1995 it was re-released as Java to take advantage of the growth of internet usage.

J2ME was developed as a consumer wireless device platform. Developers can use Java and the J2ME toolkit to write applications for mobile devices.

There are two elements to J2ME, configurations, which is a Java virtual machine and programming libraries for a type of device (fixed or mobile) and profiles, which are interfaces to provide access to functions of a specific device (i.e. mobile phone or PDA). Each device must have its own profile.

The virtual machine (VM) is an operating system, running as if it were on a seperate computer. Because of this, Java applications written on one platform (i.e. PC) can be run on another (i.e. mobile phone), as the Java operating system is the same.

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