Nokia Releases the Final Release of JSR-226
Posted by Antoine Quint apropos mobile on Sun Mar 6th, 2005 at 14:41:30 BST
After a good 18 month of joint development within the Java Community Process with companies such as Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Siemens, Symbian, Sony Ericsson, Nokia has just released the final release of JSR-226, the Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME.
This specification defines a J2ME Optional Package that enables rendering Scalable 2D vector images, including external images in W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. This API is designed to be compact, yet powerful, and targeted for low-end mobile devices with constraints in memory, screen size, and computational power. The primary use cases of this API are map visualization, scalable icons, enterprise applications, user interfaces, and other applications which require scalable and rich animated graphics.
The JSR-226 specification reflects the needs for mobile-ready APIs for SVG, built as a streamlined version of SVG DOM APIs with strong typing. On top of these APIs targeted towards the modification of an SVG tree, JSR-226 also offers higher-level APIs to instantiate an SVG renderer.
A landmark release, the JSR-226 has already been announced to play a key role in the new multimedia functionalities of the upcoming Series 60 3rd Edition platform from Nokia, due to ship next year. Further hardware announcements of devices supporting JSR-226 are expected within this year. Furthermore, several SVGT viewer vendors have already announced support for JSR-226 in their software offerings, including Ikivo with their SVG Player.
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