The Project Capuchin Platform Services API library, which is referenced in this chapter, can be found at the Sony Ericsson Developers website at http://developer.sonyericsson.com. There you’ll also find demos of other mobile applications and tutorials and another cool community of developers.

Project Capuchin Platform Services Overview

“Project Capuchin is a bridging technology between Java ME and Flash Lite making it possible to take advantage of Flash’s strengths in fast UI deployment and well established designer tools, meanwhile Java’s strengths are in services, security and a well developed distribution infrastructure. Project Capuchin makes it possible to create Java applications where some or all UI components are defined in Flash Lite and where all services can be accessed through Java.”

Sony Ericsson Developers Web site

Project Capuchin effectively provides another way for you to extend the Flash Lite player for Sony Ericsson supported devices. While some of the APIs have functionality that is similar to that of the APIs available for supported Nokia devices, there are fundamental differences in the way are used and implemented, as you will learn in this chapter.