Remember Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin which we covered back in May? Basically, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker developed a Java ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments, making it possible to use Flash Lite tools while still having access to all phone services through Java ME. Now they’ve come up with a concrete tool called Swf2Jar. Here’s what it does:
The Swf2Jar 1.0 tool automatically packages together a jar containing a Java MIDlet class and a Flash file (.swf). The simplest Project Capuchin application is to package existing Flash Lite content in a MIDlet jar file which applies Java security, distribution methods and installation.
On the downside, though, is that the first phone which is Project Capuchin enabled is the upcoming Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. That means we’ll have to wait for quite some time to see anything real/massive from this technology. In the meantime, check out this page on Sony Ericsson Developer World for more information about Swf2Jar.