In today's Internet world, less is definitely more. The trend is toward smaller browsers in palm-sized computers, cell phones, and even home appliances. With this proliferation of devices, machine-independent techniques like HTML and Java become especially important. The problem is that some of these small computers don't have the horsepower to run Java. Also, the tiny screens often require special input and display techniques. This month I'll show you a free tool called Waba that lets you write programs using a subset of Java. The resulting programs will not only run anywhere you can run Java, but you can also execute them on a Palm or Windows CE handheld device.
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