Nokia does not officially support Java on its maemo platform, yet. Of course it is technically possible to develop every type of application in C/GTK. But enabling the Internet Tablet to run Java programs offers possibilities beyond the programming language: Java is the most used language for development of third party mobile applications, and the Java platform is the unrivaled Number One for development of enterprise server side applications.
Nokia does not officially support Java on its maemo platform, yet. Of course it is technically possible to develop every type of application in C/GTK. But enabling the Internet Tablet to run Java programs offers possibilities beyond the programming language: Java is the most used language for development of third party mobile applications, and the Java platform is the unrivaled Number One for development of enterprise server side applications.
Maemo training courses provide an efficient overview of the tools and methodologies needed when developing applications and platform services to the maemo platform.
PythonLauncher is a daemon to speedup Python applications. It's was implemented for the first time by Johan Dahlin (PyGTK) and now rewrote in C, by INdT. Reference: http://blogs.gnome.org/johan/2007/01/18/introducing-python-launcher/