Java ME & AJAX: Applied Graphics and Animations

Java ME devices are ideal platforms to access web services anywhere and anytime. The recently created open source project "Mobile Ajax for Java ME" in the Mobile & Embedded Community makes developing Ajax-enabled applications a breeze with ready-to-use libraries and sample applications under BSD.

In this talk we will use one of the provided applications (local search and mapping) to demonstrate the ease of
accessing web services via Ajax from Java ME. We will also perform a step-by-step radical makeover of the original application UI using scalable vector graphics (SVG), effects, transitions, and animations.

Angela M. Caicedo  Sun Microsystems is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems who specializes in Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform technologies. She graduated from the University EAFIT of Medellin Colombia in 1998 with a B.S. in Computer Science. During 1996-1997 Angela was a visitor student at Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. Prior to joining Sun, Angela worked for three years as a software developer and researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne Switzerland. Angela did research at Agent Technologies, and in 1999 she made a specialization in Intelligent Agents.