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OnRamp

Initiative to provide Java-based software layer for legacy cable televison set-top boxes.

OnRamp to OCAP, the OpenCable Application Platform, is intended to provide a Java-based layer of middleware that will provide a common interface for first generation set-top boxes incapable of running the full OCAP specification.

OnRamp is intended to be a subset of OCAP so that applications will be forward-compatible with the full OCAP specification.

It is based on the J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition platform, used for handheld and embedded devices.

CableLabs, Charter, Cox, GoldPocket, Liberate, Motorola, Philips, Sun Microsystems, Time Warner Cable, and Vidiom Systems are working together to define the new specification, currently known as Java Specification Request 242, or JSR 242.