Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | |

Bluetooth in J2ME

Bluetooth is a very short range radio technology allowing the communication between devices which are in close physical proximity. When bluetooth is used to form a small network between bluetooth enabled systems, it is called a PAN or Personal Area Network.
  •  A Bluetooth network can have one master device and upto 7  slave devices. Such a personal area network is called piconet.
  • The term Device refers to a discoverable entity in the piconet.
  • The process of discovering devices is called Inquiry.
  • Each device in a network is assigned a UUID -  Universally Unique IDentifier. A unque randomly generated number of 128 bits identfying the device.
  • SADP - Service Application Device Profile enables the applications that runs on bluetooth devices to discover services on the device.
  • JSR 82 is the bluetooth JSR
  • javax.bluetooth is the package for bluetooth in JAVA.

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