PDAs Now Speak JavaScript

By Veronica Hendricks
iApplianceWeb
(12/13/01, 10:22:25 AM EDT)

PDAs can now easily speak JavaScript, thanks to Nombas, Inc.'s Device JavaScript, a scripting engine that fully meets ECMAScript standards for handheld and wireless platforms, including Palm OS, BlackBerry, and Pocket PC devices.

As part of Nombas' flagship product, ScriptEase Integrated SDK 4.40, Device JavaScript enables wireless and portable application developers to easily embed a JavaScript interpreter into their C/C++ and Java applications. In doing so, developers can simplify application design, speed up their development time, and significantly reduce the overall effort required to maintain these applications. In addition, it is now possible to create device applications that comply to the development standards of HTML and VoiceXML

Device JavaScript requires less than 11 kilobytes of memory to initialize the engine and all ECMAScript objects, less than 1 kilobyte to compile a standard script, and a handful more kilobytes to add even a large number of additional objects.

A 30-day trial version of ScriptEase Integrated SDK with Device JavaScript support and a real-world demo of a Device JavaScript application can be downloaded at http://www.nombas.com/us/toolkit/isdkdownload.htm

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