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SuperWaba is an exceptionally portable subset of Java that has been optimised for use on devices with small screens. It is extendable and written under the LGPL open source licence. Development can be done under any JDK supporting Java 1.2 or greater, and it is compatible with development environments such as Eclipse, JBuilder etc. GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ...


It works on the following platforms:

The resulting code runs at 1/3 to 1/2 the speed of a pure 'C' application on a Palm platform, and on a Windows 32 platform is approximately 3-4 times faster than a JIT-compiled Java due partly to its integer-only implementation. Microsoft Windows CE 3. ... A Pocket PC is a computer in a handheld size that runs a variation of the operating system Windows CE. It has many capabilities of modern desktop PCs. ... Image:Ipaq h5500. ... Palm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. ... Palm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ... Unix systems filiation. ... Windows 98 (codename Memphis) is a graphical operating system released on June 25, 1998 by Microsoft. ... As of 2005, Windows XP is the current client version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ... Windows Millennium Edition (originally codenamed Millennium and Georgia), also known as Windows Me, is a 32-bit graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft. ... Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K, W2K or Windows NT 5. ... The Java Platform is the name for a computing environment from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. ... In computing, just-in-time compilation (JIT), also known as dynamic translation, is a technique for improving the performance of bytecode-compiled programming systems, by translating bytecode into native machine code at runtime. ...


Since retlease 5.0, SuperWaba is based on the SDL library, which increases its portability to many other platforms. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library that creates an abstraction over various platforms graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, BeOS and...


Applications and libraries (from barcode scanners to complex maths) written for SuperWaba may be sold, but the majority appear to be available free from the main website. A Wiki site is available for developers and users to contribute to the project. Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki (pronounced: weekee[1]) is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. ...


SuperWaba evolved from the Waba project which was an independent forerunner of J2ME. Unfortunately it did not port the VMs for MS-DOS and the PalmOS versions, which the original Waba project did. SuperWaba split off the Ewe project which catered for Windows CE devices, but was fortunately persuaded to merge again to provide the basis for the current cross-platform code base. Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, or J2ME, is a collection of Java APIs targeting embedded consumer products such as PDAs, cell phones and other consumer appliances. ...


External links

  • SuperWaba
  • Official site
  • Wiki Site
  • Waba Project

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SuperWaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (296 words)
SuperWaba is an exceptionally portable Java-like virtual machine (VM) and associated libraries and small tools, that implements a subset of Java -- that means they don't have the will (or the bill) to follow Java specifications too closely.
Since release 5.0, SuperWaba is based on the SDL library, which increases its portability to many other platforms.
SuperWaba split off the Ewe project which catered for Windows CE devices, but was fortunately persuaded to merge again to provide the basis for the current cross-platform code base.
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