Project Capuchin
“Project Capuchin will allow pure Flash Lite content to be encapsulated in Java ME applications with the help of Sony Ericsson Developer World tools, making content created by Adobe Flash technology appear as Java ME applications.
More advanced capabilities will allow Flash Lite technology to handle an entire presentation layer and make it possible to create Java ME applications where some or all UI components are defined in Flash.”
I can’t really read the language they’re using all that well. But if the idea is to pre- package code using new java- libraries to render flash- content - then we might get flash all round pretty soon.
And it’s an interesting idea. To run java- applications inside a UI- container? (It’s such a good idea you can almost ignore the the smell of closed source, exclusive licensing deals, and closed developer tools.)
(via blog.se-nse.net.)
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When I read about things like this - put Flash inside JavaME somehow - I see them as a clear sign that the desperation of the mobile players about the terrible fragmentation of operating systems, languages and tools on phones is mounting by the day, and fast. “Let’s try something, anything, if there is just the slightest chance to make the problem better.”
Of course, so far, all that happens makes the problem actually worse: More tools, more languages, more fragmentation.
I am no fan of Flash, but I have certain admiration for Adobe. They don’t try anything in rapid succession and with signs of desperation, but they seem to me to have a clear strategy, and they are pulling it through, even if it takes years to bear fruits.
Symbian, Nokia and SE together with such a clear, long-term strategy, patience and dedication could turn Symbian plus some merged S60/UIQ interface on top into *the* dominant mobile platform, the “Windows for smartphones”. Won’t happen, of course.
*nods* ..Still.. maybe the concept is something UIQ should look at. Placing content of various kinds - video, java, realmedia, flash, powerVR - inside containers you place with the UI manager…
I’m not sure I can think of any useful application for it, but it sure sounds really awesome, expensive, and impossible to use effectively.
hehehe. That’s it.
wait… does capuchin project supports UIQ??
Difficult to say. If the “Capuchin” api is externalised to the development package somehow (like it looks like they’re saying, but that could be my imagination) - then it means you should be able to package the flash- routines inside the java- package. And then render that content with the available jsrs (”java spesification requests”.. the wonder of the telecom- industry again).
So the question is if SE has done something clever for once, and managed to figure out that the 3d and vector- graphics api in java is actually more than sufficient to render flash (which it probably is), and decided that now would be a good time to offer flash- content to all java- enabled phones with the required jsrs.
er.. Basically, it’d be like using a plugin in a browser, I guess.
It’s the same thing with flash on UIQ - they have support for svg tiny already - so some form of very quick flash- implementation is perfectly possible. And as they’ve been hinting before - technical capability was never the problem.
Anyway.. until we’re going to hear more about the details, this is just speculation. It could well be that capuchin will be offered as an extra chip, or an extra rom upgrade for specially selected devices, or whatever.
(..and I’m guessing it has to get off the drawing board first, as well. :p)