(keitai-l) Re: KDDI, BREW and CP

From: Bill Volk <bvolk_at_teknikcorp.com>
Date: 07/07/03
Message-ID: <008601c344c5$48aa6b00$9865fea9@bvolk>
Oliver asks:

>i do not quite understand how low-level BREW really is. can a program 
>access the actual hardware via pointer for example? or is it just a 
>sandbox with a more extended and optimized API?

It's native code calling C++-like methods via. a set of macros.  It is
NOT a sandbox.  For example you get pointers and structures for the
offscreen bitmaps etc.. but you don't actually 'touch' the display
hardware directly.

It's sort of like "ActiveX" for the phone.

Bill Volk
Teknik
Received on Mon Jul 7 23:25:59 2003