About a Framework for Integrating Smart Devices in Java Applications

This paper deals with the question how to integrate smart devices in Java applications. It will outline how different smart devices can be used to enrich learning environments, we will point to some of the problems one has to face while dealing with smart devices, a differentiation of smart devices will be done and we will give an overview about existing Java Virtual Machines available for different smart devices. Furthermore we will tackle the question of the communication between different smart devices and also between different kinds of smart devices. An outlook to the future work will also be given at the end of this work.