The JavaTM 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) is the Java platform for consumer and embedded devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, TV set-top boxes, in-vehicle telematics systems, and a broad range of embedded devices. The J2ME platform delivers the power and benefits of Java technology tailored for consumer and embedded devices including a flexible user interface, robust security model, broad range of built-in network protocols, and support for networked and disconnected applications. With J2ME, applications are written once for a wide range of devices, are downloaded dynamically, and leverage each device's native capabilities.

QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) initiative is revolutionizing the wireless industry by offering a complete, open solution for wireless applications development, device configuration, application distribution, billing and payment.

BREW is designed to allow developers to write in whatever language they choose. Native BREW applications are written in C/C++. While BREW supports programming in other languages, such as Java and XML, C/C++ is used by significantly more developers worldwide than any other programming language, according to International Data Corporation. And, because it can support Virtual Machines (VMs) and microbrowsers, applications and content written to those specifications are supported as well. The BREW architecture is, by design, easy to write to and open to extension by third parties, enabling even developers with no background in wireless technology, the ability to write wireless applications.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. TinyScape supports XML.

The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML, reformulated in XML. XHTML Family document types are all XML-based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents. XHTML is the successor of HTML, and a series of specifications has been developed for XHTML. TinyScape supports XHTML

SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML [XML10]. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects and template objects.

SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered either declaratively (i.e., by embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content) or via scripting. TinyScape supports SVG