The design of a Java phone programming environment

Mobile phones present unique challenges to the implementation of a self-contained programming environment. The paper details the design of the M scripting environment for mobile phones. The goal of the environment is to make the breadth and power of the Java libraries available to anyone with a Java-enabled phone. The paper lists some of the design problems that were encountered together with the M solution. M is the only self-contained programming environment for cell phones that executes on cell phones.