Nokia and Sun Microsystems SNAP Package

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Nokia and Sun Microsystems announced the inclusion of Nokia's Scalable Network Application Package (SNAP) Mobile APIs in the beta release of the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (version 2.3), formerly known as the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. For the first time, Sun's Java Wireless Toolkit incorporates a third-party developer application as part of the toolkit's External API feature.

Together, Nokia and Sun are offering the thousands of worldwide Java game developers powerful client-side APIs, based on the Nokia SNAP Mobile platform, for development and creation of sophisticated, community-enabled, multiplayer Java games. The APIs provide efficient, scalable, server-based multiplayer game data distribution, versatile matchmaking, including ranked, freestyle and challenge modes, as well as community features such as chat, friends list, presence and support for tournaments.

Nokia will be showing several multiplayer Java games built on the Nokia SNAP Mobile platform at this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

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