Archive of Mobile & Embedded Features

Next week: JCP Program Annual Awards and JavaOne JCP panel discussion

Join us next week for the JCP Program Annual Awards and an interesting JavaOne JCP panel discussion with the Java ME Executive Committee members —  Terrence Barr
  (May 29, 2009)

Still slots available for M&E Lightning Talks
Just a quick note: We've received several submissions already but still have room for 2 or 3 more lightning talks at our JavaOne Mobile & Embedded Lightning Talks session. Sign up NOW.
  (May 28, 2009)

JavaOne 2009 keynote: Sony Ericsson to reveal mobile Java strategy
Sony Ericsson is picking up the pace at JavaOne 2009 with a keynote session on June 3, 2009. The audience will be the first to hear about our mobile Java strategy and how to do business by developing mobile Java applications for existing and future Sony Ericsson phones.
  (May 28, 2009)

Java.net Community Presentations at JavaOne 2009
If you're a member of the Java.net community and you'll be presenting at JavaOne 2009, let me know! —  Kevin Farnham
  (May 27, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 80: Java at FIRST 2010 Competition Eric Areseneau talks about Java now being available for the FIRST 2010 Competition. (May 27, 2009)

Blogging for you during the JavaONE 2009

During the next week I will be available to talk about your projects and products, first come first served. —  Felipe Gaucho
  (May 27, 2009)

Java Device Test Framework released
Today marks the release of the Java Device Test Framework (JDTF) project into the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. JDTF is a general purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test framework suited to assess various aspects of Java ME device implementation quality, such as fitness, interoperability, reliability, and performance. The framework is a set of JT harness plug-ins that facilitates the running of quality test suites on Java ME devices. More importantly, JATAF has chosen JDTF for running its test suite. Read more ... —  Terrence Barr
  (May 28, 2009)

JavaOne 2009: A Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Guide to the Show
JavaOne 2009 - here it comes! Last week I posted some high-level bits and pieces about this year's CommunityOne West and JavaOne. Now it's time to delve into details - with a mobile/media/embedded focus, of course!  —  Terrence Barr

15 Minutes or Less: JavaFX Effects and Components (Screencast)
Join Sun Developer Network's Robert Eckstein as he gives you a quick tour of some of the various effects and components available in the new JavaFX language, all in 15 minutes or less.
  (May 24, 2009)

JavaFX App-O-Rama: Applications From the Community
This article highlights some of the applications that the JavaFX community has developed and provides insights from the authors about their experiences using the JavaFX platform.

Using Advanced Deployment Features
Many real-world applications retrieve data through web services, then parse and visualize them. For example, WeatherWidget application displays weather forecasts from the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed. This article explores additional features for deploying JavaFX applications available in the JavaFX SDK and the NetBeans IDE for JavaFX technology.

Creating Interactive TV Applications With the Tru2way Platform and OCAP

Java Twitter Client with Derby!
Mike Haller has put together a Twitter desktop client using Derby for local data. Haller should probably also try this on the CDC environment. This would be a coll application for the CDC devices! Apache / Derby is the cauldron... —  Masood Mortazavi

Scientific Desktop Apps Turn to Java DB!
According to a ChemAxon's forum posting from earlier last year, ChemAxon's Instant JChem has already been using Java DB (Apache Derby) in favor of HSQL although the authors express a wish for in-memory storage, which is now part of Derby... —  Masood Mortazavi
  (May 19, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 79: JavaOne 2009 Preview Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr preview JavaOne 2009 for mobile, media and embedded developers. (May 14, 2009)

Attention London/Southampton mobile developers
Hi, I'm one of the Java ME Executive Committee (EC) members and an Individual JCP member (that is, representing you, and not a big corporation, on the EC.) I would like to hear from other Java ME developers while I'm in the UK this week for EC meetings. —  Sean Sheedy
  (May 12, 2009)

Resolved: java.net Outage
The java.net outage of this morning has been resolved. Let us know if you are still experiencing problems. -- Terrence
  (May 13, 2009)

java.net Outage
There is currently a java.net outage which affects project pages and SVN access. It's being worked on with high priority. -- Terrence
  (May 13, 2009)

JavaOne 2009: Noteworthy bits and pieces
As every year, JavaOne is approaching too fast ;-) Only three more weeks to go. I thought I'd collect some of the noteworthy bits and pieces to help you start your planning for the show.

Community Corner Podcasts at JavaOne
Take a look at the podcast and speaker schedule to see who will be in the Community Corner during JavaOne. Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list.
  (May 06, 2009)

Most session videos posted for M3DD

Sorry for the delay ... we finally got around to processing and posting most of the remaining session videos. To find the videos please check out the links on the Sessions tab (both for Technical Sessions and Lightning Talks).
  (May 07, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 78: JSR 290 XML User Interface Markup Language JSR 290 developers Natalia Medvedenko and Petr Panteleyev talk about JSR 290 and the new power it will give Java ME developers. (May 04, 2009)

JCP News: A candid interview with Patrick Curran, and more JCP info
A couple of news-bits around the Java Community Process (JCP): First, an insightful and candid interview with Patrick Curran, the JCP Chair. Patrick speaks about increasing transparency in the JCP, encouraging participation, JSRs as open source projects, and much more.... —  Terrence Barr

M3DD/LA, June 20, Goiania, Brazil

One of the amazing things that came out of our Java Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days conference was that a couple of Brazilian folks immediately started talking about organizing a similar event in Brazil ... —  Terrence Barr
  (Apr 27, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 77: Java ME and Symbian OS Roy Ben Hayun talks about his new book, "Java ME on Symbian OS - inside the smartphone model". More details here. Mobile & Embedded community there is 20% discount in purchasing the book in Wiley.com by using discount code: VA275 And if you attend JavaOne 2009, mark BOF-4882 Java™ Technology and the Symbian Foundation: What's the Story? in your calender (Apr 24, 2009)

Book introduction: "Java ME on Symbian OS" by Roy Ben Hayun
Roy Ben Hayun's book on "Java ME on Symbian OS" is available at Wiley.com. Java Mobile & Embedded Community members get a 20% discount.
For a brief introduction to the book see here or listen to to podcast #77.

Lighting Talk BOF signup for Mobility Track This year in BOF 6731 will feature the Mobile & Embedded Lightning Talks. Lightning Talks are 5 minute time slots where the presenters have the opportunity to pitch their project, product, or ideas to the rest of the session attendees. You won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative BOF complete with cowbells to annoy speakers who exceed their time allotment. If you would like to present in this years Lightning Talk BOF reply to the Lighting Talk BOF signup for Mobility Talk thread with your name and company (if appropriate), and a sentence or two about what you want to talk about. Terrence Bar (M&E Community Evangelist) and Roger Brinkley(M&E Community Leader) will pick the top 10 presentations. (Apr 27, 2009)

Java ME SDK Team blog
After releasing final version of JavaME SDK we've started a team blog here. It will be definitely more up to date than this blog, because all team members can contribute. —  Tomas Brandalik
  (Apr 27, 2009)

Brand-new: phoneME Feature software MR4 release
The phoneME Feature project is plugging away ... We're excited to announce the brand-new milestone release 4 (MR4) - the fourth major release since phoneME Feature went live in November 2006.
  (Apr 27, 2009)

Java Coming to FIRST Robotics Competition
It's the culmination of an international competition that last year included a total of more than 40,000 participants and 1,680 teams from 11 countries. This year's championship is being held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta (April 16-18, 2009), with thousands of spectators in attendance. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, best known as the inventor of the Segway. And the open source Sun SPOT platform and Squawk VM play a big role in it.

All Java ME Goodies Consolidated into One SDK
The recently released early access edition of the new Java ME SDK (version 3.0) unites Java ME developer tools for CLDC, CDC, Blu-ray Disc Java, and LWUIT into a single SDK. Find out how it works.

Java Mobility Podcast 77: Java and Symbian OS Roy Ben Hayun talks about his new book, "Java ME on Symbian OS - inside the smartphone model". More details here. Mobile & Embedded community there is 20% discount in purchasing the book in Wiley.com by using discount code: VA275 And if you attend JavaOne 2009, mark BOF-4882 Java™ Technology and the Symbian Foundation: What's the Story? in your calender (Apr 24, 2009)

Connecting with the Oracle... with Java ME technology

In the movie, The Matrix, the Oracle tells Neo that he can use his Java ME tech-enabled cell phone to manipulate the Matrix. But she says he's waiting for something... maybe his next life. Of course, Neo does get resurrected into his next life with the help of Trinity where he kicks major butt fighting against the Matrix agents who are enemies of the Oracle.  —  hinkmond
  (Apr 20, 2009)

On why I'm skeptical about the "permanently connected" stuff
I've blogged many times about my skeptical attitude about service models based on the "permanently connected" paradigm. Let me tell you this funny (more or less) anecdote that happened to me this morning. Not to be taken too seriously. Today I'm... —  Fabrizio Giudici
  (Apr 22, 2009)

Released: Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 now available
Java ME SDK 3.0 is the successor to the popular Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 and Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC. It provides device emulation, a standalone development environment and a set of utilities for rapid development of Java ME applications.Users will get all-in-one for cldc/midp, cdc and BD-J development.
  (Apr 21, 2009)

Speaking tomorrow (4/21) at SDG in Helsinki

I just got back from a much-needed 5-day vacation break (Italy/Lago Maggiore region). Benissimo! ... and no Internet connectivity, either ;-) Just a quick note that I will be speaking tomorrow (Tue, April 21) at the SDG (Startup Developers Gathering) in Helsinki, Finland. —  Terrence Barr
  (Apr 20, 2009)

PhoneME Feature Milestone 4 Release The phoneME Feature project is plugging away ... We're excited to announce the brand-new milestone release 4 (MR4) - the fourth major release since phoneME Feature went live in November 2006.

Java Mobility Podcast 76: Sound of Motion Vladimir Savchenko of Sound of Motion talks about their Java ME application that transforms their cycles into advanced cycling computer. (Apr 07, 2009)

Weather on SunTechDays
The SunTechDays conference will take place in Saint-Petersburg this week. I'm going to participate in it and hold the "Developing Innovative Multimedia JavaFX Applications" seminar together with my colleague. I'll be talking about accessing the web services and deploying applications. My presentation will be based on the WeatherWidget sample that was slightly refactored. So, what kind of weather to expect on the conference? —  Sergey Malenkov
  (Apr 06, 2009)

The $25,000 JavaFX Coding Challenge
Check out the newly announced JavaFX Coding Challenge and win up to $25,000!

A Look at the Increasing Popularity of Open-Source Software

For all that viability of open-source software is an old subject, an article in The Guardian reports that the current economic slump is definitely seeing increasing adoption. —  Marina Sum
  (Mar 31, 2009)

More freedom, or less? (Or: Qt to be released under LGPL)
A couple of weeks ago at FOSDEM in the Java Libre Room we had a discussion about whether pure GPL (as in 'strict' - with no exceptions) is still up to date given the evolution of open source and it's... —  Terrence Barr
  (Mar 30, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 75: Daniel Green on kids and computers Daniel Green from Sun Microsystems talks about computers in education, getting kids excited, and computer clubs on thumb drives. (Mar 30, 2009)

Just Say "Britney Spears": Multi-Modal Search and ODPs
A multi-modal, search-driven On-Device Portal in Java ME provides compelling mobile content and a consistent user experience to mass-market phones. More ...

Java Card 3: Classic Functionality Gets a Connectivity Boost
Java Card 3.0 offers improved connected features that maximize enhanced hardware options. Sun engineer Peter Allenbach also compares it to Java SE, ME, and EE. More ...

Discovering Devices and Sending Files via Bluetooth in Java ME
This tech tip shows you how to create a MIDlet that will search for Bluetooth-enabled devices and services, and then allow the user to send a simple note to one of the found devices. More ...

NEW: JT Harness 4.2 milestone release
The JT Harness 4.2 milestone release is based on Sun Microsystem's JavaTest testing harness. The JT Harness 4.2 milestone release contains new features and improvements in the following areas:

• Fixed bugs in the test monitor
• Added service management functionality
• Use of the quick start wizard is now optional
• Added custom GUI support to the interview API
• Added functionality that enables the exchange of JTI files across locales
• Improved template handling
• Improved test execution performance

JT Harness 4.2 is compatible with JT Harness 4.1.4. For more information, visit the JT Harness project.

LWUIT At JavaOne 2009
LWUIT will be featured in 5 different JavaOne 2009 sessions/bof's which is pretty cool considering it will be one year old in the market by then. You can find out all of them by searching for LWUIT in the JavaOne content catalog.

A Tale of Two Challenges

A lot has happened since I last blogged. The JFXStudio hit 33k hits with 50 posts, I've started working on a new secret project built with JavaFX, and we had a rockin' booth at SXSW last week. I'll cover SXSW... —  Joshua Marinacci
  (Mar 22, 2009)

Jazoon'09 Community Days
Jazoon'09 is very proud to announce special community days for - OSGi - Atlassian - Glassfish Check out jazoon.com for more information —  Christian Frei
  (Mar 27, 2009)

Best practices for JavaFX Mobile Applications
Check out these two posts by Michael Heinrichs on best practices for JavaFX Mobile applications with tips on improving performance.

Breaking To Make Things Better
Our stance on API backwards compatibility has always been to try as hard as possible but no more than that. When we find design mistakes, even painful ones we choose to cut them down and fix them even with a compatibility issue especially when the potential benefits are noticeable. We are now in the process of fixing a mistake in Styles in regards to the fgSelection/bgSelection properties.

Sun's Cloud (4 of 4)
In the last three updates to this blog, I've tried to set out a clear direction of where Sun's headed. I've talked about our three basic priorities:

1. Technology Adoption
2. Commercial Innovation
3. Efficiently Connecting Adoption and Commercial Opportunity.

I'm hoping you've got a clear picture surrounding the first of these two priorities - how and where we drive software adoption, and focus our commercial efforts.

So now I'd like to talk about the linkages - while also addressing one of our biggest strategic challenges, our scale. --Jonathan Schwartz

Sun Startup Essentials: Connecting with Startups & Communities Are you familiar with Sun's "Startup Essentials" program? Read up on what's going on in the Startup Essentials blog.

Sun's Network Innovations (3 of 4)
As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are:

1. Technology Adoption
2. Commercial Innovation
3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2.

This entry focuses on the second, Commercial Innovation, and reviews our core revenue products, services and strategies. -- Jonathan Schwartz

JavaFX Mobile, boldly go where no one has gone before

JavaFX Mobile, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the JavaFX Mobile programmers. It's endless mission to program cool things for next generation cell phones. To seek out rich user interfaces. To boldly go where no mobile program has gone before...

The cool part of JavaFX is the simple way to add video to your app. And, because it's JavaFX, you program it the same way on your mobile device as you would for your desktop. Write once, and run wherever Captain Kirk says to run it. Try playing the video in Hinkmond's blog  —  hinkmond
  (Mar 11, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 74: BlueJ and Greenfoot Ian Utting from the University of Kent and BlueJ and Greenfoot development talks about both products while at SIG/CSE. (Mar 13, 2009)

Mixing MIDI, Tone, and Sampled Audio using MMAPI
In this tech tip, Vikram Gopal shows you how to mix and play multiple media content at the same time. He uses the Mobile Media API (MMAPI) and the NetBeans IDE.

java.net unplanned outage
We are currently experiencing problems with java.net. More information can be found in this thread.
  (Mar 09, 2009)

Canoo Engineering Creates JavaFX Based Music Pinboard Application Canoo, is a RIA solution provider based in Basel, Switzerland. For Mobile World Congress, the engineers at Canoo created a JavaFX Mobile-based version of their Music Pinboard application. Canoo also has several videos available on their site talking about their experiences with JavaFX. In addition to the Music Pinboard application, another video, discusses how Canoo is able to use the JavaFX Production Suite to help coordinate designer-developer workflow with one of their partners, User Interface Design GmbH, based in Germany.

Technology Adoption (2 of 4)
As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are:

1. Technology Adoption
2. Commercial Innovation
3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2.

This entry focuses on the first, Technology Adoption. Adoption is a non-economic phenomena, no money is spent, only time - yet it has extreme financial consequences. Let me give you an example. -- Jonathan Schwarz

LWUIT on TV
Information on Light Weight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) for CDC based Java stack for TV. —  Sourath Roy
  (Mar 08, 2009)

Voting ends today for the JCP Java ME EC special election

The voting for the Java ME EC special election ends TODAY, March 9, 2009. You must vote today in order to have your voice counted.  —  Terrence Barr
  (Mar 09, 2009)

SigTest 2.1 MR has been released
The SigTest 2.1 milestone release is based on Sun Microsystem's SigTest signature testing and API conformance tool. With SigTest 2.1, we are expanding the SigTest project to include other tools based on the same signature testing technology as the SigTest tool itself. SigTest now includes API Coverage tool functionality, a static analysis tool used to analyze code coverage of a program or API. SigTest 2.1 also includes a new analysis mode for migration compatibility. We encourage you to browse, download, contribute, and get involved. For more information, visit the SigTest project.

A ZDNet Interview With Sun Open-Source Officer Simon Phipps
Read a few insights on Sun's MySQL acquisition and the OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris communities.

Provocation: are webapps compatible with Kyoto?
John Reynolds just posted another blog in the saga "the web is killing the desktop" (no pun intended: it's somewhat obvious that as the world evolves people discuss about the direction). One of the comments, by cmdrx, gave me the... —  Fabrizio Giudici
  (Mar 03, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 73: DigiQuest Solomon Saul of DigiQuest shares his experience with games development on TV with Java as a programming language and the transition of DigiQuest products to mobile devices. (Mar 03, 2009)

Community Corner 2009
We've started planning for JavaOne. Have you?

FOSDEM and Oredev wrap-up
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since FOSDEM and Oredev but I'd still like to share my impressions about both conferences and follow up with links to slides and videos for those who couldn't make it. —  Terrence Barr
  (Mar 03, 2009)

Microlog V1.1.1 released
Yesterday V1.1.1 of Microlog was released. Please download and try it out!

Microlog is a small logging library for Java ME (J2ME) like Log4j. It has support for logging to console, file, RecordStore, Canvas, Form, Bluetooth, a serial port (Bluetooth, IR, USB), Socket(incl SSL), UDP, Syslog, MMS, SMS, e-mail or to Amazon S3. Tips & Tricks can be found here. -- Johan Karlsson

JCP Java ME EC special election (NOW through March 9, 2009)
As you may have heard there is a special election taking place NOW through March 9, 2009 for a seat on the JCP Java ME Executive Committee (EC). This is another excellent opportunity for developers to get involved by checking out the candidates and asking questions on topics that are relevant to you.

  (Feb 25, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 72: Java ME SDK Tomas Brandalik and David Pulkrabek tell about the new features in the Early Access release of the Java ME Software Developer Kit. (Feb 25, 2009)

Sony Ericsson Developer World survey: share your thoughts, chance to win an X1 phone The Sony Ericsson Developer World communication team would like your feedback on how and where you consume information, in order to improve support for content creators. Completing this quick on-line survey before March 15, 2009 gives you the chance to win a Sony Ericsson X1 phone.

Devoxx interview with the JavaFX team
Parleys.com is featuring a video interview at Devoxx with Joshua Marinacci, Jasper Potts, Richard Bair and Martin Brehovsky covering a wide range of questions around JavaFX.

Newsflash! iPhone UI, JavaFX in 15 mins, Devoxx keynote, and more ...
There's been a lot of news bits and snippets of information rolling in over the last two weeks - in fact, too much to cover in a single blog entry. I thought I'd compile some of the more interesting bits... —  Terrence Barr
  (Feb 24, 2009)

Devoxx interview with the JavaFX team on Parleys.com
Check out this interview at Devoxx with Joshua Marinacci, Jasper Potts, Richard Bair and Martin Brehovsky covering a wide range of questions around JavaFX.

Top Ten Things you need to know about JavaFX (Devoxx keynote video)
In this Devoxx keynote video Danny Coward presents the Top Ten Things developers need to know about JavaFX - including a bunch of sexy demos worth seeing!

15 Minutes or Less - JavaFX Join Sun Microsystems' Robert Eckstein as he teaches you the fundamentals of the new JavaFX programming language, all in 15 minutes or less.   (Feb 24, 2009)

java.net maintainance scheduled for Friday 2/20, 7 PM PST to Saturday 2/21, 7 AM PST
Just a reminder - CollabNet (which hosts part of java.net including the svn repositories) will be doing it's quarterly maintenance for all the websites it hosts for 12 hours starting at 7pm PST this Friday, 2/20. Users who try to access the site will see a splash page indicating that maintenance is in progress during that time.
  (Feb 17, 2009)

Artima Developer: Sun's Jeet Kaul on JavaFX Mobile
Frank Sommers talks with Jeet Kaul, VP Client Software Group at Sun, about JavaFX Mobile. — 

NetBeans and OSGi

A good number of times when I've been asked about the module facility (NBM) in the NetBeans Platform, I've been also asked whether there is compatibility with OSGi modules (which, BTW, are the technology used by Eclipse Platform). Some times... —  Fabrizio Giudici
  (Feb 14, 2009)

Introducing the JFXStudio
Today I'm pleased to announce a new experimental site a few of us have been working on called the JFXStudio (www.jfxstudio.org). It's a site specifically for sharing your JavaFX creations. The JFXStudio is not meant to be an app-of-the-day kind...
  (Feb 16, 2009)

Sun has fixed SBDTV Forum's messy with the new Java DTV specification
After a lot of royalty issues in the Brazilian middleware Java subsystem (Ginga-J), Sun has helped SBDTV Forum and released Java DTV specification. —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Feb 16, 2009)

JavaFX Mobile 1.0 released!
This morning, at 6 am GMT, JavaFX Mobile 1.0 was launched as part of the JavaFX SDK 1.1 release. Together with this release there were a bunch of announcements, new versions of the JavaFX tool chain and runtime, the Java 6 Update 12, as well as numerous updates to JavaFX.com content, videos, and samples. Exciting news - let's look at the details! -- Terrence Barr
  (Feb 12, 2009)

Vringo video ringtones for Java ME tech-enabled phones

Why have an annoying, obnoxious, and grating ringtone for your cell phone, when you can have that and video at the same time? Video ringtones getting annoyingly better Sometimes as a practical joke, my wife likes to set my ringtone to something embarrassing so that it rings something like Tag Team's "Whomp! There it is!" or somesuch song (full volume) during a meeting. Good thing I check to set my phone to vibrate when going to meetings... most of the time...

 —  hinkmond
  (Feb 12, 2009)

JavaFX goes Mobile !!

JavaFX Mobile has just released !! Just ahead of the Mobile World Congress where it'll be on show, a big update JavaFX has just been released: bringing beautiful 2D graphics, video and all the great development features of the JavaFX Script environment to the most widely deployed runtime (more than 2.2 billion) in the mobile industry.

And together with this release, you'll see that some of the most influential companies in the mobile industry have already pledged their support. They've also started handset and carrier testing. You'll be able to get your hands on some of the JavaFX Mobile enabled handsets at JavaOne 2009, with consumer phones by the end of this year.

Java Mobility Podcast 71: Eric Klein on Java FX for Mobile Devices Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing, tells you just about everything you want to know about the Java FX 1.1 release that is targeting mobile devices. (Feb 11, 2009)

Three Reasons Why Your Next Java ME Mobile Application Should Include JavaFX Mobile
Whether you're new to the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) or have been using it for a long time, right now is the perfect time to get started with JavaFX and JavaFX Mobile. The JavaFX 1.0 platform was released late last year, and it included several new capabilities and features that you may not be familiar with. The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the JavaFX platform, and to provide three really good reasons why your next Java ME mobile project should include JavaFX.

Students create Java ME tech-enabled presentation projector
Is that an LCD projector in your pocket or are you just happy you can use Java ME technology to build cool gadgets?

Mobile World Congress is coming up
You may not be a mobile developer (yet !), but its good to stay on top of what's going on. The world's operators and device manufacturers use the Mobile World Congress show to announce their latest and shiniest.
  (Feb 05, 2009)

JDK 7: Project Jigsaw opens !
Yesterday, Project Jigsaw was officially approved in as a project in OpenJDK.

Jigsaw is defining a low-level module system for the purpose of modularizing the JDK itself for JDK 7. This will open up many new possibilities, including radically improving startup and footprint, new ways for parts of the JDK code to be used on smaller devices. Jigsaw will be using the work of JSR 294, the Java language additions for modularity, and so will provide news means for developers to modularize their own applications.

Understanding Sun's Business - Q1 Results
We announced our earnings today, and put specifics around our preannouncement from a week ago. We also greatly increased the transparency of Sun's business by providing line item detail surrounding our most important product categories (and we broke out core elements of our Software business for the first time). If you'd like to listen to our earnings call, just click here - in addition, here's a quick synopsis of the quarter and our business overall.

Java Mobility Podcast 70: Bit-side Thomas Schüppel of bit-side talks with Terrence about his companies experience developing on mobile devices. (Feb 05, 2009)

Next up: FOSDEM 2009

I'm excited to be heading up to Brussels, Belgium this Friday. This is my first time at FOSDEM and I've been told it's an awesome FOSS conference. Attendance is absolutely FREE and they are expecting 5000 people up there this... —  Terrence Barr

M3DD: Thanks & follow-up
I'm just coming up for air again ... M3DD took all my attention for the past three weeks and after it was done I had a bunch of things to follow-up on, sift through hundreds of piled-up emails, and finally take two days for a desperately-needed break. But here now a brief follow-up on the conference ... —  Terrence Barr
  (Feb 03, 2009)

Getting ready for the Java Libre FOSDEM dev room

This time around, the FOSDEM conference is coming around the corner a bit faster then last year. FOSDEM takes place every year at the ULB in Brussels, Belgium, approximately two months after the Devoxx conference in Antwerp. It's packed, it's intense, and it's a great way to meet new people across open source project and language boundaries.

This year's schedule for the development room has been split into a few blocks of related talks. We've tried the '30 minutes or less per talk' approach last year, and it worked pretty well, allowing a lot of developers to present the work they are passionate about. And of course, to enable matching real life faces to IRC handles and e-mail addresses, which makes it so much easier to continue interesting follow up conversations into the night. So the Java libre dev room organizers chose the same rapid-fire-of-interesting-subjects approach this year ... robilad
  (Feb 01, 2009)

Telmaps Navigator Uses LWUIT
A while back guys from Telmap contacted us regarding the usage of LWUIT in their application, after extensive testing/back and forth with us they are finally getting ready to launch a rather impressive LWUIT application.

Chen and myself were very impressed with some of the visuals associated with their GIS application, they really used alpha blending/z-ordering to the maximum of their capacity on LWUIT. The widgets and animations are practically unrecognizable which is a strong testament to how customizable LWUIT is.

Hot deployment into emulator
Java ME SDK has an important feature which can speed up MIDlet development. MIDlet can be redeployed into already opened emulator.

Real Invaders - A Fun Java ME Game for Mobile Phones
This is a fun game where you must move the phone in the environment to put the target on the spacecraft to fire. This game works in Nokia mobile phones that have Symbian OS series 60 and screen resolution 240x320 pixels like N95, N73, 6120 classic, 6110 navigator, etc. This game does not use accelerometer, this game use the camera to make motion tracking.

JCP Executive Committee Special Election
The Mobile & Embedded Community was instrumental in electing Sean Sheedy to the Java Micro Edition (ME) Executive Committee(EC) last fall and there is an opportunity to do that once again. The JCP currently have Nominations will open 3-17 February 2009 for one open Java ME EC seat. This EC seat is for a term ending in December 2010, and will fill Intel's vacated seat on the Java ME EC. If the Mobile & Embedded Community can focus on one candidate we stand a chance of getting this person elected.
  (Jan 27, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 69: Live from Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days Daniel Steinberg did a walk about the floor at the Mobile, Media and eMbedded Developer Days soliciting comments from the various attendees. (Jan 27, 2009)

Perst Embedded Database Upgrade Brings Full-Text Search and More to Mobile Phones
McObject has released Perst 4.0, an upgrade to its open source, object-oriented embedded database system for smartphones and other Java-based mobile devices. In the new release, Perst extends its full-text search capability to new mobile device environments, and builds on this feature to provide a sample search engine application for phones based on Google's Android platform as well as BlackBerry, Nokia and other Java ME-based mobile devices.

Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days Video Feed
Live video feed of the M3DD conference is available now.

Java Mobility Podcast 68: OpenCable Project and Tru2Way Phil Bender talks about the OpenCable project, its relationship to Tru2Way and his talk on the Tru2Way Roadmap and Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days. (Jan 15, 2009)

M3DD is next week
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is next week. Read the featured segment on the Tru2Way (Open Cable) and Brazilian TV Spec talks in the sixth of our weekly newsletters

M3DD: Only 1 week to - final updates (Registration ends Monday!!)
Only one more week to the Java Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days conference (Jan 21-22, 2009) and the special half-day LWUIT tutorial on Jan 23. Here are the latest updates ...
  (Jan 14, 2009)

M3DD: Only 1 week to - final updates (Registration ends tomorrow!)
Only one more week to the Java Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days conference (Jan 21-22, 2009) and the special half-day LWUIT tutorial on Jan 23. Here are the latest updates ...
  (Jan 14, 2009)

Developing Interactive TV applications faster and smoother The Java TV Developers project has been introduced to enable faster and smoother tools for creation of interactive TV applications . The project enables developers with best practices presentations ,guidelines & latest tools for introducing applications for TV as well as provides tools for migration of available mobile & desktop applications to TV. New materials and forums for discussion of content creation for TV ( High definition or Standard definition TV ) leveraging JavaTV as the common denominator Java platform for blu-Ray players with BD_J, Cable STB with OCAP and MHP , BrazilJavaDTV, and the China DTMS.

Reminder: JCP 10th Birthday Party - Tue, Jan 13th
Just a quick note: Tomorrow, Tuesday (Jan 13th) the JCP will hold their 10th anniversary birthday party at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA ...

M3DD - Two Weeks To Go - Update on free, live, worldwide broadcast

Only two more weeks to the Java Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days conference (Jan 21-22, 2009). Check out podcast #67, newsletter #5, and the update on the free, live, worldwide broadcast. —  Terrence Barr
  (Jan 07, 2009)

M3DD is only 2 weeks Away
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is two weeks from now. Read the featured segment on the JavaFX Mobile sessions in the fourth of our weekly M3DD newsletters.

Java Mobility Podcast 67: Does Your Mobile Speak JavaFX? Juraj Svec and Jan Sterba of the JavaFX Mobile development team are preparing for JavaFX/Mobile presentations at Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days. Here them talk about the challenges in developing this platform in this introduction to JavaFX/Mobile. (Jan 06, 2009)

Java Mobility Podcast 66: Sean Sheedy, JCP ME Executive Committee Feedback Sean Sheedy was recently elected a JCP ME Executive Committee and is soliciting feedback on what developers think the EC should be addressing. (Dec 31, 2008)

M&E Community for students on Open Source University Meetup
Students now have access to the same materials as the rest of the Mobile & Embedded Community on the new M&E site at the Open Source University Meetup site. One Student from Canada is already benefiting from his post at the site when Enrique Ortiz's M3DD presentation on Near Field Communication was posted. This is an interactive website designed specifically for students. Big thanks to Eduardo Lima for setting up this site.

M3DD is only 3 weeks Away
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is four weeks from now. Read the featured segments on embedded sessions in the fourth of our weekly M3DD newsletters.

JavaFX - the road ahead Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software Group at Sun, answers questions around JavaFX on his blog "JavaFX - the road ahead".

Jazoon call for papers is open
Jazoon 09 Call for Papers is open until 15th January 2009. —  Felipe Gaucho
  (Dec 27, 2008)

Join the discussion on Java ME EC topics

As you probably have seen Sean Sheedy was elected to the JCP ME Executive Committee (EC) a couple of weeks ago. Sean is now soliciting input for the January JCP EC meeting - this is your chance to have your... —  Terrence Barr
  (Dec 29, 2008)

M3DD is only 4 weeks Away
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is four weeks from now. Read the featured segments on embedded sessions in the third of our weekly M3DD newsletters.

Java Mobility Podcast 65: Eric Arseneau, Go Small or Not at All Eric Areseneau, M&E Governance Board member and Squawk project lead, was recently written up as a Contrarian Mind. Listen to his ideas on getting a Java Virtual Machine in small embedded systems. (Dec 22, 2008)

Event: LWUIT Tutorial (Jan. 23, Santa Clara, Calif.)
Chen Fishbein, architect of LWUIT, and Jonathan Knudsen, developer and author, will do a practical tutorial for LWUIT content developers on the day after the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days (M3DD).

JavaFX Mobile: See and learn at M3DD As mentioned in my JavaFX launch post one of the key benefits of JavaFX is the unified development and deployment model across multiple screens - desktop, web, mobile, and (to come later) TV. At Java Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days (M3DD) Jan Sterba, one of the architects of JavaFX Mobile, will be presenting "TS-3: Does your mobile speak JavaFX?". This is your opportunity to learn first-hand about what's coming - do not miss it.

JCP ME Executive Committe Representative Sean Sheedy wants your opinion
The Mobile & Embedded Community helped to elect Sean Sheedy to ME EC Representative and Sean is already representing your interests. In a recent email on KVM-Interest cross posted on the ME-Interest forum Sean, "What topics do you think the EC should be addressing?"

The JCP ME Executive Committee is talking about carving out time during January's face-to-face meeting for topics specific to ME, including fragmentation, governance, platform direction, etc, with the idea being to turn ideas into action.

Sean wants to hear what is on your mind in light of newer mobile development platforms on the scene. You can tell him what you think in the forum thread

M3DD is only 5 weeks Away
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is five weeks from now. Read the featured segments on LWUIT sessions in the second of our weekly updates.

Java TV 1.1.1 RI and TCK released The Java TV team has released the Java TV API TCK 1.1.1, and its Reference Implementation and TCK Configuration Kit for Blu-ray Disc (BDCK) 1.1. The releases are available at the Java Partner website.

JCP ME Executive Committee Chair Sean Sheedy wants your opinion
The Mobile & Embedded Community helped to elect Sean Sheedy to ME EC chair and Sean is already representing your interests. In a recent email on KVM-Interest cross posted on the ME-Interest forum Sean, "What topics do you think the EC should be addressing?"

The JCP ME Executive Committee is talking about carving out time during January's face-to-face meeting for topics specific to ME, including fragmentation, governance, platform direction, etc, with the idea being to turn ideas into action.

Sean wants to hear what is on your mind in light of newer mobile development platforms on the scene. You can tell him what you think in the forum thread

Java Mobility Podcast 64: LWUIT Half Day Tutorial Jonathan Knudsen talks about the LWUIT and the LWUIT Half Day Tutorial that he and Chen Fishbein will be giving the day after M3DD. (Dec 17, 2008)

Free Frosty! Free Frosty! Free Java ME on the iPhone too!

Steve J. is a grinch! There will be no Java ME technology or Flash on the iPhone this Christmas. Bah Humbug!  —  hinkmond
  (Dec 11, 2008)

LWUIT Tutorial the day after M3DD
If you coming to Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days in Janauary plan on staying an extra day. The LWUIT team has announce a half day tutorial on the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT), an advanced user interface toolkit for MIDP 2.0 devices. This practical, focused tutorial for content developers will be led by Chen Fishbein, architect of LWUIT, and Jonathan Knudsen, developer and author.

M3DD attendees can register for the conference and the LWUIT half day tutorial at the same time. Those wishing to just go to the half day tutorial will need to follow the instructions here.
  (Dec 11, 2008)

Java SDK for TV
Discussion on available SDKs for developing Java applications for TV. Talk on the upcoming ones from Sun Microsystems. —  Sourath Roy
  (Dec 11, 2008)

Contrarian Mind: Eric Areseanu
Eric Arseneau, an active project leader and Governance Board Member in the Mobile & Embedded Community, likes to think small. Very small.

"I'm trying to go to as small a machine as possible," says the software engineer.

No problem. That's been the trend in technology, right? Smaller, faster, cheaper. All that must work in his favor.

NOT! Arseneau's target? The microcontrollers embedded in all kinds of things -- wrist watches, electric shavers, toys, toasters, greeting cards, environmental sensors.

Java Mobility Podcast 63: Sprint Titan (JSR 232 OSGi) Jon Bostrom of MobiNoir Consulting is currently engaged on the Sprint Titan Project, bringing OSGi to Mobile. (Dec 09, 2008)

SurfKitchen cooking up great Java ME content

SurfKitchen won some type of award from EContent Magazine this past week--strange name for a company, stranger award, "named one of the digital content companies that matter most".  —  hinkmond
  (Dec 03, 2008)

Take the poll: Will you be attending M3DD?
The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days organizer want to know if you will be attending the conference Janauary 21-22, 2008. Take the Poll and let us know if your coming, staying home, or just plain ole haven't decided.

Also the organizer have just added more Lightning Talks and updated the talk abstracts. Check it out.

  (Dec 08, 2008)

Early Bird Special Ends Today! (Java Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days)
Today (Dec 5th) is the last day to take advantage of the Early Bird special for Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days.

  (Dec 05, 2008)

Goodbye Mr A

First I'd like to thank The Hoosiers; a British band who, for reasons inscrutable to man, formed in the American midwest. So. After a year and a half of sweat and hard work JavaFX 1.0 is here. (Don't worry the... —  Joshua Marinacci
  (Dec 05, 2008)

Thoughts on the JavaFX Launch Event
I just got back from the JavaFX launch event in San Francisco. It was just a few blocks from my office, so I figured, why not? Jonathan Schwartz was presenting, as well as the VP in charge of Java (I... —  Rich Unger
  (Dec 05, 2008)

JavaFX 1.0 is here: On your desktop, in your browser, and on your mobile phone
JavaFX 1.0 is here. JavaFX is the expressive platform for creating and delivering rich Internet experiences across all the screens of your life: for web browsers and desktops - and (in preview) for mobile phones.

  (Dec 04, 2008)

Thoughts on "What Sun Should Do"
Tim Bray's piece on "What Sun Should Do" is getting a lot of attention - as well as some of the follow-ups such as on JavaLobby and RedMonk. I think it's a good and necessary discussion - but it's easy to oversimplify and miss important points. —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 27, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 62: Microlog Johan Karlsson discusses Microlog, a small logging library for Java ME, with Terrence Barr. (Dec 03, 2008)

Coming on Thursday: JavaFX 1.0 including FX Mobile prerelease It's been a long time coming: Rich (and fun!) client-side application development for Java - inside and outside the browser ... and beyond.   (Dec 02, 2008)

ME Framework 1.2 has been released
The ME Framework 1.2 milestone release binary is now available on the download page. This release went through an extensive QA cycle and is ready to be used in test suite development.

If you picked up an earlier development release of ME Framework 1.2, please switch to this final milestone release.

Sean Sheedy elected to JCP ME Executive Committee

Congratulations to Sean Sheedy and the mobile and embedded developer community! As reported in several places already (Enrique's blog, Roger's blog) Sean was confirmed as a new member of JCP ME Executive Community on November 17th. The election results indicate that... —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 23, 2008)

Mapping BlackBerry Software Version to Device Model

When writing software for the BlackBerry platform, one of the common questions that come us is “what BB software version (and related JDE) should I be using?” The following helps answer this question: (Source: Introduction to BlackBerry® Java® Development) Not shown above are the following BB software versions to platforms mapping: 4.6 is targeted at Bold-family of devices 4.7 [...] —  ceo
  (Nov 25, 2008)

Java, JavaFX: Staying on top of it all

There's really isn't a better way to stay on top of what's going on with Java, multiple languages, new APIs, JVM developments, the new JavaFX programming model and so on than to hear and talk about it first hand at a conference.

Like Devoxx which is just around the corner (especially if you are in Belgium). For those of you who can't go, your humble Planetarium Janitor will put down the broom that week to keep you posted about the news and gossip in the hallways via a mix of tweets, microblogs and daily digests. And from the virtual world too.

And you are welcome to sign up for the M3DD conference in the Bay Area in January, which promises to be a stimulating mix of in depth and lightening talks with an informal, mobile feel.

Perhaps en route to the Mobile World Congress in February, for something on grander if less personal scale. And of course to see all the latest in mobile gadgetry.

And don't forget, if you feel inspired, to submit a talk for JavaOne 2009 before December 19th, which has moved to June this year, and has simplified the tracks down to just four.
 —  dannycoward
  (Nov 24, 2008)

The Public Review — Mobile Service Architecture 2; Developer Input is Needed

The Mobile Service Architecture 2 (JSR 249) is the specification that promises making Java ME-based handsets what many of us have been waiting for years: API robust and consistent. The JSR 249 is now in Public Review phase, and it needs the input from the developer community ... —  ceo
  (Nov 22, 2008)

Draft agenda posted for M3DD (Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days)

It's been so busy around here lately that I haven't had time to blog about the upcoming conference - but things are heating up and the conference is a mere 8 weeks away ... Check out the draft agenda and register today to benefit from early bird pricing at $175! —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 24, 2008)

NetBeans 6.5 for Java SE, Java ME and JavaFX

NetBeans 6.5 is out ! What's new for you ?

Java SE developers get new goodies like incremental compilation so your app is always ready to run, the Analyse Javadoc feature to bring your javadoc in line and improved debugging support with an updated UI and deadlock detection.

Or why stick to Java ? You could try JavaScript, which is fully supported right from navigating its different dialects while editing the code to debugging it in FireFox and IE. Or write Ruby, with better support for Rake files and break and catchpoints in the Ruby debugger. Or taking a walk on the wild side by coding up a RIA using Griffon, with the full editing support for Groovy code.

For Java ME developers, out of the box you get more SVG and data-binding components you can use in the Visual Designer Palette, or add your own. Or the LWUIT ones.

The support for JavaFX in NetBeans will get a big update with the JavaFX SDK 1.0 release,  so don't delete your copy of NetBeans 6.1 with JavaFX support just yet !

Could be time to upgrade. Its getting some good press.

 —  dannycoward
  (Nov 20, 2008)

T-Mobile says Double Opt-In No Longer Required

One small step for T-Mobile, a bigger step for end-users… It would be great if all network providers dropped the “double opt-in” requirements that makes campaign certification (and re-certification over time) a pain in the neck, not to mention expensive. Instead, companies that offer services over texting should (vs. being mandated to) follow the guidelines defined [...] —  ceo
  (Nov 21, 2008)

NetBeans 6.5 Performance Press Release

The 6.5 release of NetBeans is close. It is time to show off the work we have done in last six months on the performance aspects on NetBeans. —  Jaroslav Tulach
  (Nov 14, 2008)

JCP Elections 2008: A Good Day for the Developer Community

Thanks to everyone who voted for Sean at the JCP elections. The two with the most votes have been elected for JCP ME Executive Committee for the next three years. Having Sean at the EC is a very good thing, as he will represent the developer community; he understands well the issues and will push [...] —  ceo
  (Nov 18, 2008)

The gods are being good to Network Operators

…or, the Network Providers/Operators must be having a blast. The network providers are doing just fine… new cool handsets here and there, handset exclusivity on certain networks, message usage is up, data consumption is up, new services are coming up, very cool applications from web to native, developers and more developers, and prices are up… Not [...] —  ceo
  (Nov 18, 2008)

M&E Products in Popular Science 100 Best Innovations of the Year

At least two Mobile & Embedded products made Popular Science's Best of What's New 2008. Both the Bug Labs BUG and the Livescribe Pulse made the Best of What's New 08 list for Gadgets. Ah, the sea plane at the left was not enabled with Mobile & Embedded technology.

M&E Community Member on JCP ME EC Board

Sean Sheedy, a Mobile & Embedded Community Member now has a seat on JCP ME EC Board —  Roger Brinkley
  (Nov 18, 2008)

Attack of the sarcastic texts... in Java ME technology This is scary. New Edge has come out with a Java ME game for your cell phone that pits you against human flesh eating aliens--but, not just any type of aliens. These are McAliens... (Nov 18, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 61: Funambol Funambol provides mobile sync and push email solutions powered by open source. Stefano Maffulli from Funambol talkes with Terrence Barr about the technology and license. (Nov 18, 2008)

Last day to vote in the JCP Java ME EC Election
Today (Monday, Nov 17th) is the last day to cast your vote for the JCP Java ME EC election. As I blogged recently it is important to strengthen the voice of the independent developers - this election is your chance... —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 17, 2008)

The latest on Java ME and JavaCard at M3DD
If you are trying to get your application in front of a couple billion users, on their phones, on their PDAs, on their TV set top boxes and Blu-ray players, in their credit card, (or all of the above), you should probably get to know the various profiles of Java ME and Java Card and what frameworks and tools you can use. A great way to do that is to spend a couple of days at to the M3DD conference this coming January 2009. Roger announced this week that the schedule has been released.

Java ME Address Book on 'Roids, Steroids not Androids

Cellity has pumped up their Address Book mobile app with Java ME steroids. I want to pahmp you ahp!  —   
  (Nov 15, 2008)

Resource Editor Tutorial
I just uploaded to youtube a new resource editor tutorial showing off a simple usage of the resource editor to create a quick theme in a few minutes while explaining what I'm doing. This video tutorial barely scratches the surface of what can be done with the resource editor. I will try to show off some more elaborate features and abilities in future posts. The main goal here is to get people starting and playing around with the resource editor.

Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Schedule Set

The preliminary schedule for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days has been published. —  Roger Brinkley
  (Nov 11, 2008)

JCP Java ME EC Election: Vote now for a Voice for Independent Developers
The Java Community Process (JCP) is currently holding elections for the Java ME EC (Executive Committee) [...] Two seats are up for replacement and our Java Mobile & Embedded Community member and Community Star Sean Sheedy is running for election. I am asking you to support Sean Sheedy in this election ... —  Terrence Barr

CNN: Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time
It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time. In short, everything is interconnected. ...

Report from Africa: Regional Challenges and Opportunities for Java ME This article describes the opportunity and challenges of developing mobile services in a huge emerging market: Africa. An FM Radio Reference MIDlet from Nokia demonstrates user-centric design.

Asynchronous Communications with Java ME and SIP: Part 2 In this Tech Tip, Bruce Hopkins uses a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy and the REGISTER method type to provide a simple, yet scalable solution for sending messages asynchronously from one application to the other, when one SIP device is behind a firewall.

Java SE 6 update 10 released Admittedly, at first sight this has little to do with mobile and embedded Java - but bear with me.Java SE 6 update 10 is big news because it essentially recalibrates the Java runtime and desktop Java. It addresses a number...

Java ME and JavaFX at MM3DD
If you've been developing in Java for the desktop or server for a while and feel like a walk on the wild side, or you've been developing for mobile phones or TV set top boxes and need to stay on top of the latest technology...
Perhaps you should sign up for the M3DD (Mobile, Media and eMbedded Developer Days) conference in January 2009 ...

Google phone needs work

The AW sent me a pointer to this article from the San Jose Mercury News published on 16Oct2008 that gave a fair assessment of the upcoming Google phone. See: Google phone needs work Here's a quote: Unfortunately, video and song playback is hampered by a major hardware shortcoming: the G1 eschews a standard headphone jack in favor of an included but uncomfortable earbud headset, which plugs into the mini USB port that is also used to charge the phone. This poses several problems... Better wait for 2.0. Or get a BlackBerry Storm. It has Java ME technology and is already mature. Nothing wrong with that! Hinkmond

Hmm... what does this phone remind me of: i35 Java technology-enabled phone?
Here's a video of the i35 Java technology phone. Hmmm... what does this i35 phone remind me of? Doesn't it make you think of some other phone on the market? One phone that also starts with the letter "i" maybe? ...

We are the world, we are Java ME technology

Do you have an idea for a Java ME application that will save the world? Well, make sure to enter this Nokia contest ...

MEP - A Cool, New Mobile Platform for the Enterprise and your Phone
The Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) is the new platform to which aims to make it fast and easy to develop secure, online/offline access to any data from your Java ME mobile device. It also includes cool features like client side data encryption, data fading/wiping, and OTA provisioning. And you can download it for free and start your mobile project today! —  Hans Hrasna
  (Oct 21, 2008)

Table Functions and Java DB - Mix and Match Data at Will

Francois Orsini presents Rick Hillegas' paper on Table Functions in Java DB. —  Masood Mortazavi
  (Oct 27, 2008)

Academic Kit for Integrating Mobile Devices in the CS Curriculum
The Centre for Mobile Education and Research is pleased to announce the early access to an academic kit for integrating mobile devices into the Computer Science (CS) curriculum. This academic kit has been created to facilitate the integration of mobile devices into CS and engineering courses for universities and colleges worldwide. The kit takes a mobile approach to teaching CS topics with a focus on Java ME and BlackBerry® application development ...

Meet me at Øredev, Malmö, November 17-21 Øredev is a fast-growing Scandinavian developer conference taking place in Malmö (Sweden) November 17-21. They put together a pretty impressive program across a wide range of developer topics including Java and Mobile 2.0. We at Sun will have three speakers attending... (Terrence Barr) (Oct 16, 2008)

Meet me at Øredev, Malmö¶, November 17-21 Øredev is a fast-growing Scandinavian developer conference taking place in Malmö¶ (Sweden) November 17-21. They put together a pretty impressive program across a wide range of developer topics including Java and Mobile 2.0. We at Sun will have three speakers attending... (Oct 16, 2008)

Write a Review

If you are a user, you can post a review for Java DB (Sun's distribution of Apache Derby). —  Masood Mortazavi
  (Oct 14, 2008)

Jazoon'09 launches Call for Papers
Jazoon '09 - the international conference for Java technology - opens the call for papers and invites java and open source experts from all over the world to a technical dialog. The conference takes place during 22-25 June 2009 in Zurich and offers the international Java community a platform to exchange experience, to investigate trends, and to introduce new solutions. —  Christian Frei

Meet me at Øredev, Malmö, November 17-21 Øredev is a fast-growing Scandinavian developer conference taking place in Malmö (Sweden) November 17-21. They put together a pretty impressive program across a wide range of developer topics including Java and Mobile 2.0. ... (Oct 16, 2008)

Goodbye WTK, hello Java ME SDK! For years the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC (WTK) has been the reference tool for developing mobile applications and emulating mobile platforms on the desktop. Among it's strengths was that it was compact, easy-to-use, came with a number of...

Java and Blu-ray - Wanna play ? Given the recent price cuts in both Blu-ray discs and players, the steep growth predictions for sales of the players over the next couple of years seem more likely to be fulfilled. And every single one of them has Java on it ! ...

This week is 2008 Texas Wireless Summit ==> $200 Discount for Friends of MobileMonday
This week is the 2008 Texas Wireless Summit. OCTOBER 14-16, 2008 AUSTIN, TEXAS USA Friends of MobileMonday get $200 discount. REGISTER NOW to attend and use discount code WS08200D to get the $200 discount.

Java Podcastapalooza ! For those of you who are interested and are looking for something new to tune into in the area of Java and client technologies, I put together a little survey of the ones I subscribe to. And if you feel like it, let me know if you have a top podcast in a comment below ... (Danny Coward) (Oct 13, 2008)

LG Mobile Developer Network Launches LG has launches the LG Mobile Developer Network with the first version of the LG SDK for the Java™ ME platform is available. Start your MIDlet development with the SDK. (Oct 13, 2008)

Early Bird Registration for Developer Days is Open Early Bird Registration for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is now open. Additionally keynote speakers and a number of preselected sessions have been identified. (Oct 11, 2008)

Java Card Development Tool Opensource

A new project opensource was started to help developers on the Java Card applets development. The project has a propose to support Java Card 3.0 also. The project JCard Kit is still under definition and receiving contribution requests, if you want... —  Igor Medeiros
  (Oct 10, 2008)

Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible

I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But... —  Fabrizio Giudici
  (Oct 10, 2008)

Java ME Platform SDK Early Access

Java ME Platform SDK toolbox for developing mobile applications has been released as Early Access on October 9. It integrates CLDC, CDC and Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) technology into one SDK. Java ME SDK 3.0 is the successor to the well known Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 and Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC. It provides device emulation, on-device deployment, on-device debugging, a standalone development environment based on Netbeans platform, Java runtime for Windows Mobile and a set of utilities for rapid development of Java ME applications. —  Tomas Brandalik
  (Oct 10, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 59: CoSMo - Conference Scheduler for Mobile The second in a series of podcasts from the Brazilian Month of Java, Neto Marin discusses CoSMo the conference scheduler for mobile devices (Oct 10, 2008)

LG Electronics announces the LG SDK 1.0 for the Java™ ME platform The LG SDK 1.0 for the Java™ ME Platform includes an emulation environment, documentation, examples, and other application development resources that developers need to create mobile applications for LG mobile phones. The LG SDK 1.0 for the Java™ ME Platform is a custom version of Sun Java™ Wireless Toolkit. It supports all features included in the Sun Java™ Wireless Toolkit and provides additional features for LG mobile phones.

Dr. Joe Polastre to Speak at Wireless Sensor Network Forum on 10/8 at U.C. Berkeley Dr. Joe Polastre joins a panel of academic and industry experts at an event hosted by the Business Association Italy America (BAIA) this week to discuss the latest advancements in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Specifically, Dr. Polastre and fellow WSN panelists will address key questions about the ever-growing ubiquity of WSNs, and the profound, transformational impact it is making in the way that people work, live, and play.

Poll: Which GTK device should we port phoneME Advanced to? The great thing about open source is that it brings the technology provider and the technology consumer closer together ... indeed, in many case they become indistinguishable. Being able to discuss technical details over real code is a huge benefit...

Where to go for Java DB Questions
While Java DB is Sun's distribution of Apache Derby, we do not maintain a separate users' forum for it outside of the Apache Derby users' forum. So, the best place to post your Java DB questions is still the Apache... —  Masood Mortazavi
  (Oct 01, 2008)

The mobile future is now with Java ME technology

Technewsworld.com says it best when they write how Android might become the next best thing since sliced overhyped bread, but there are also a whole bunch 'o existing open source mobile apps and tools that are great right now to download and use. See: Lots of Open Source Mobile Software Using Java ME Tech

 —  hinkmond
  (Sep 30, 2008)

M3DD - Call for Papers Closed (softly)

The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded (M3DD) call for papers is closed. (Well almost) Thus far we have 51 submission but I'm guessing there are few more out there. If so hurry up. —  Roger Brinkley
  (Oct 01, 2008)

Carpe ME 'em: Measure your gas emissions every day with Java ME tech

My AW (Awesome Wife) found this Java ME technology reference on how to use a Java ME technology-enabled app to measure your carbon footprint automatically from your cell phone using your GPS recorded movement (no manual entry needed).  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 29, 2008)

Ending Sept. 30: Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers Don't forget that the 2009 Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers closes September 30 for technical sessions, panel sessions, hands on talks, and lightning talks. If you haven't already submitted a talk time is quickly running out. Fill in the following form and submit your ideas to Subject Line: Presentation format- Title Title: insert your title here; Format: technical session, panel, lightening talk, poster presentation, hands-on talk; Target Audience: Intermediate or Advanced Abstract: keep it short - we all have other jobs ;-) Bio: short biography of the speaker. Web pages, blogs, past speaking, etc (Sep 29, 2008)

2009 Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers Ending September 30 Don't forget that the 2009 Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers closes September 30 for technical sessions, panel sessions, hands on talks, and lightning talks. If you haven't already submitted a talk time is quickly running out. Fill in the following form and submit your ideas to submissions@developerdays.dev.java.net . Subject Line: Presentation format- Title Title: insert your title here; Format: technical session, panel, lightening talk, poster presentation, hands-on talk; Target Audience: Intermediate or Advanced Abstract: keep it short - we all have other jobs ;-) Bio: short biography of the speaker. Web pages, blogs, past speaking, etc (Sep 29, 2008)

Runtime Delivered Schema
Renatto has made details about the Diamond Powder data collector sample he showed at Just Java 2008 and the Diamond Powder Java Mobility Podcast available. The data collector that's been used collects time sheet entries. The cool features of this sample are:

• The schema can be maintened outside the Midlet application, in a web application
• The Midlet application is able to request new schema versions to some web server
• The Collector is able to parse a new schema on the fly

Second ME Framework 1.2 Development Release
We have been busy working on new features this past month. Check out our new development release which has been posted to the download page at http://download.java.net/mobileembedded/cqme/meframework/download.html /pre>

Mobile & Embedded Community joins Twitter The Mobile & Embedded Community has joined twitter. Community Leaders will post snippets on our travels and other events that are happening in the community. We will also post highlights from the community front page and other sources. Community members or other interested Mobile, Media, & Embedded developers could allow us to follow their happening with their twitter accounts. Keep us up on the professional happenings of others. Let us know about a JUG meeting or what you are working on. If we get enough information flowing I will see if we can get the RSS feed published on the M&E community main page. (Sep 26, 2008)

Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days: Call for Papers closing soon
As announced previously the Java Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days have been moved to January 2009 and along with that we've also kept the Call for Papers open a little longer - it will close in a few days... —  Terrence Barr
  (Sep 26, 2008)

Banks looking to use Java ME tech more

All the mortgage finance meltdown making you say, "Gahhhh..."? Fret not. The banking industry in Malaysia doesn't really care about the impending American Great Depression II, the sequel and untold story starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko, mortgage securities exec. Instead they are looking to expand their mobile banking business using Java ME technology (NOTE: this is not yet another Java ME game, YAJMEG) :-)  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 25, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 58: Diamond Powder - data collectors for MIDP

The first in a series of podcasts from the Brazilian Month of Java, Renato Belia discusses his recently promoted project Diamond Powder and it's data collector facilities. (Sep 25, 2008)

Hot, hot, hot Hot Lava Software for Mobile Learning

Here's a video demonstration of how to use Hot Lava software to create and deploy mobile educational content for the BlackBerry as a Java ME app. Cool! Using Java ME tech to learn is very good utilization of the mobile platform found on most cell phones today.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 20, 2008)

Nokia's Calling All Innovators Contest

Forget today's news about Android. Nokia is having their "Calling All Innovators" Contest with cash prizes up to US $25k and the chance to meet and greet VCs and Mobile Operators. (I'm not sure why you'd want to do that... but, hey, at least that's better than meeting with a Wall Street mortgage-backed securities broker!) :-)  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 23, 2008)

Wasn't your staff supposed to be back from lunch now?

Did you ever get the funny feeling that your team is out somewhere playing miniature golf? Well, TeleNav has their Mobile Workforce software which allows supervisors to keep track of the locations of their workers.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 22, 2008)

Googlephone unworthy of Satan tag: Where's the temptation? The Register: "For more than a year, the world has breathlessly anticipated Google's foray into mobile handsets, and today, the waiting ended with the arrival of a phone that tops the rest of the market only in its ability to promote applications from Google ..."

Blu-ray Disc Application Development with Java ME As you probably know by now Blu-ray is fundamentally built around the Java runtime - every Blu-ray player ships with Java. If you're new to Blu-ray check out this interview with Blu-ray Disc (BDJ) architect Bill Foote. Blu-ray is really taking off ...

How Fast Is LWUIT? Check For Yourself
Performance is one of the main points of focus when working on small devices, speed and memory size are remarkably important and often contradictory requirements. Its very hard to deal with customer complaints of performance since this sort of behavior is very subjective to perception and hard to quantify, often devices would slow down during networking operations (since they grant the native network thread higher priority and ignore Java's thread priorities) ...

Developing mobility apps on Mac OS X and Solaris
The Sun WTK (Wireless Toolkit) for years has been the de-facto standard for mobile development on the Java platform (together with the "Mobility" plug-in for NetBeans which is built on the WTK). However, the original architecture and implementation of the... —  Terrence Barr
  (Sep 21, 2008)

Porting LWUIT Part I: Basics Of The Porting Layer

This series is intends for hackers who wish to port LWUIT itself, not for developers wishing to port applications written in LWUIT. LWUIT is portable on two fronts, the first allows us to run applications developed in LWUIT in many platforms. The second allows us to adapt LWUIT to additional platforms such as CDC, Android etc.. —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)
  (Sep 14, 2008)

Keeping watch, from your Java ME cell phone

There are security cameras everywhere these days--at all major street intersections, on the doors into public buildings, in line at the bank, in the dressing room at Victoria's Secret... Oh, wait. Maybe not that last one.

Anyway, Digitus has come out with its ginormous new line of security cameras that transmit 420 lines of resolution in real time to your Java ME technology-enabled cell phone.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 12, 2008)

Fast 3D Graphics with Java ME technology

A lot of developers don't realize how fast you can get 3-D graphics to blaze on a cell phone using Java ME technology. The frames-per-second on some devices, like Sony Ericsoon phones, are pretty impressive.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 15, 2008)

Teaching Software Engineering with BlackBerry

One of the best aspects of my job as computer science professor is that I keep learning new stuff. This semester, I am teaching a software engineering class. Cinequest, the organization that puts on the annual San Jose film festival, approached the CS department, asking for help with their mobile initiative. We jumped at the chance, and now my students are hard at work designing and prototyping a BlackBerry application for festival attendees. —  Cay Horstmann
  (Sep 17, 2008)

Cooking With LWUIT Preview

Inspiration is powerful stuff, Kirill's blog often inspires and educates me (highly recommended even for non-Swing developers his blog is very informative on all things GUI). This past week he featured an excellent series covering the subject of creating a UI from a photoshop mockup, this is a remarkably common task with very little coverage especially when considering the amount of times we get asked to perform this task. —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)
  (Sep 16, 2008)

Google Mobile Maps team hearts Java ME technology

While one end of the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, Calif. toils on the vapor-phone we know as Android, the other (more lucrative) end of the Googleplex effortlessly works on Google Mobile Maps written in... (wait for it)... Java ME technology for BlackBerry phones and billions of other Java ME technology-enabled phones.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 17, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 57: Shawn Fitzgerald and Microbus project

Shawn Fitzgerald, a regular participant in the Mobile & Embedded forums, talks about mobile development and the Microbus project. (Sep 18, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 56: PhoneME port to Play Station Portable

Max Mu shows off his Play Station Portable that is running a port of PhoneME. They are currently working on a port to Nintendo DS. (Sep 13, 2008)

Student projects in the Mobile & Embedded Community
Just a quick note: We are rolling out a number of student projects in the Mobile & Embedded Community. These are great opportunities for students (and educators) who want to get involved with mobile and embedded Java and open source...
  (Sep 12, 2008)

Yoav Demoing LWUIT For SDN (Sun Developer Network)
Yoav Barel the manager of the operator group and a major driving force behind LWUIT is interviewed here in the Sun Developer network videos. Without Yoav's vision and support we wouldn't have LWUIT it would never have reached the market and never would have become open source. This discussion is a great summary introducing LWUIT.

phoneME performance rocks! The folks over at BugLabs have been one of the earliest and most serious adopters of phoneME - they are using phoneME as the basis for their core product. Lately, they have done a series of performance tests to compare ... read more

Lots and lots of MIDlet stores, galore!

Kim from MobileRated.com points out (and, rightly so!) in a recent blog comment that there are multiple MIDlet stores out there enabling Java ME developers to go around the carriers and OEMs to deploy their Java ME apps freely to customers on billions of Java ME devices. Cool.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 09, 2008)

Future Of BlackBerry Support
As some of you might know the BlackBerry has been a huge pain for us since day one, its the most buggy platform supported by LWUIT and the lowest quality VM of all. RIM is not a responsive vendor unlike Nokia/SE who are very accessible and open, to make matters worse we can't even purchase and use a device for testing since we don't have proper network access (we tried using USB cables but this didn't work either).

JustJava 2008, here I go!
Just Java 2008 is one of the greatest Java Conferences we have in Brazil. I will be there tomorrow with my fellow Giovani Salvador presenting about Java and Agile Methodologies. The title? Java Meets Agile “ A survival guide to adopt Agile inside Java teams —  Daniel Wildt
  (Sep 09, 2008)

Clone of a clone of a clone... but it has Java ME techonology!

What does it mean when there's a clone of a clone of an iPhone? That's what you have when you look at the Asus P552w (the name just rolls off the tongue, dudnit?). It's got a striking resemblance to the HTC Touch, which of course is one of the thousands of iPhone killers out there.  —  hinkmond
  (Sep 09, 2008)

ME Framework 1.2.1 Released
The ME Framework 1.2.1 release is now available on the download page. This release went through an extensive QA cycle and is ready to be used for test suite development. For more information see the ME Framework project.

Third Wave Book?

Last week I had an enjoyable conversation with my old friend Randall Schwartz on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv (which to my surprise was broadcast libe too). It was published on Friday ... The conversation - discussing Sun's open source strategy - is one I have had so many times over the last few months that I wonder if it would be worth writing a book ... —  webmink
  (Sep 06, 2008)

Mythbusters: Java ME Myths Get Busted

It's mind-boggling that there people who still believe the myths and falsehoods around Java ME technology ... —  hinkmond
  (Sep 06, 2008)

LWUIT Application Alert: PaderSyncFM & MyWidz

One of the cool surprises we get is when someone just releases a LWUIT application out of the blue. A couple of such applications came out recently that seem very cool and attractive ... —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)
  (Sep 07, 2008)

Berlin conferences: Berlin.jar and OSiM World
It's been nice and quiet for a couple of weeks - no travel. Now the conference circuit is starting up again and so in a week I will head up to Berlin, Germany for two conferences: Berlin.jar is the first... —  Terrence Barr
  (Sep 08, 2008)

Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in Java ME for Data Interchange
Choosing the right data interchange format is an important design decision when building any network-aware software. This is especially true when designing mobile and embedded applications, where attributes such as lightweight and efficient are important characteristics to consider ... In today's 'Tip of the Week' check out this new article by C. Enrique Ortiz published on SDN.

M&E Community Growth: 180 projects, almost 20,000 activities per month! I've been wanting to post data on the growth of the M&E Community for some time now ... but somehow I always got distracted trying to pull together the stats. Turns out that compiling meaningful statistics is harder than you...

The Programmable Web continues to grow - 900+ APIs
The ProgrammableWeb web API directory now has 900+ open web service APIs, see the API Dashboard. —  C. Enrique Ortiz

Date Changes for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days The dates for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days has been changed to January 21-22, 2009. Additionally the close for the call for papers has been extended to September 30, 2008.   (Sep 04, 2008)

JT Harness 4.1.4 Milestone Release
The JT Harness 4.1.4 milestone release fixes various bugs in the harness. This release specifically addresses issues with the display of results and screen refresh functionality. JT Harness 4.1.4 provides complete backwards compatibility with JT Harness 4.1.3. For more information, visit the JT Harness project.

Java Mobility Podcast 55: Back to School Special

Diane Wolff and Melanie Crouch of Virgina Western Community College are starting a new degree program of mobile programming at their community college that is geared to meet the needs of the Roanoke, VA business community. (Sep 02, 2008)

New Palm Treo Pro w/pre-installed Java ME technology

It's so nice when something is already pre-installed when you buy it: leather seats in your car, central a/c in your house, Java ME technology in your cell phone, 120mm smooth bore cannon on your M1A1 Abrams tank...  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 29, 2008)

A Personal Data Storage Application With Embedded Java DB

Today I tackle embedding a database within a Java desktop application. Most of the tutorials I've run across talk about creating applications that connect with a database that is managed from a server. This is appropriate for most business applications. However, sometimes you might want to create a more portable application that carries its own data with it, such as an application in which a user manages personal data. —  Patrick Keegan
  (Aug 30, 2008)

Porting LWUIT - The LWUIT Micro Backend

Porting LWUIT is something I need to blog on more, which is something I fully intend to do. In the meantime Guillaume Legris sent us a link to a port he is working on ... —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)
  (Aug 31, 2008)

Mobile Distillery training in Bay Area, Sept 16th
Tools-based parametric application development is an interesting and increasingly used approach to increase the range of target devices and addressable market while lowering development and deployment costs. One of the companies in this space is Mobile Distillery ... —  Terrence Barr

Get real, Apple
Things aren't going so well for the iPhone and Apple these days. First, it appears that the much-anticipated 2nd generation iPhone (the iPhone 3G) doesn't actually perform that well on 3G networks - many users are reporting that 3G connectivity is... —  Terrence Barr
  (Aug 28, 2008)

Quick Updates...
Some quick updates about Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA book, Marge Podcast at JavaOne and M3DD 2008 Call For Papers. —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Aug 27, 2008)

Break out the marching band: New Samsung i900 Java ME cell phone

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Samsung marketing loves to launch their products with a lot of fanfare: marching bands, dancing girls, fireworks, blah, blah, blah. But... this is way COOL! :-) —  hinkmond
  (Aug 27, 2008)

The Sentilla Perk
The Sentilla Perk is an innovative pervasive computing kit that comes with the hardware and software tools that allow you to develop novel applications for wireless sensors... —  Qusay H. Mahmoud
  (Aug 19, 2008)

Sentilla Labs: A New Java Community Website
Sentilla Labs, a recently launched community website, offers developers a step-by-step guided tour through the project development process, allowing visitors to download code and illustrations and rapidly bring projects to life. Some projects at Sentilla Labs can be created with fewer than 100 lines of code. In addition, developers can upload and display their own projects with confidence because they retain all rights to their code.

Fire Eagle updates from your Java phone

With all the travel I'm doing lately I've been looking for a convenient way to keep people who are interested in getting in touch with me updated on my current whereabouts - I don't know about you but I... —  Terrence Barr
  (Aug 26, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 54: Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA

Jonathan Knudsen talks about his new book, Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA and his tutorial on the Light Weight UI Toolkit. (Aug 20, 2008)

Falling In Love With My Sentilla Perk Kit

I got a Sentilla Perk Kit. This is my first introductory post showing how to set up the environment and create a simple Hello World. —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Aug 19, 2008)

Pimp My LWUIT!
This is part one of hopefully a long series covering UI customizations in LWUIT, it is written mostly for the programmers among us and to a lesser extent for the designers (although they can probably grab ideas from here/make them beautiful). I will try to cover as many grounds of UI look as possible, from advanced rendering concepts to animations and customizations. ...  —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)

Comparing LWUIT and JavaFX Mobile
Open sourcing LWUIT last week has created a lot of buzz - the response has been phenomenally positive. We've also gotten a few questions regarding the relationship of LWUIT and the upcoming JavaFX Mobile platform - there still seems to... —  Terrence Barr
  (Aug 19, 2008)

New SDN articles
Sun Developer Network (SDN) has published two new articles, both very worthwhile reads:

• Mobile Service Architecture 2 - Coming Your Way
• Java ME Technology: Everything a Developer Needs for the Mobile Market

Ask the Experts: Java FX Preview, August 18-22 The recently released JavaFX Preview helps early adopters become familiar with JavaFX. Got a question? Post it during this session and get answers from three key members of Sun's JavaFX engineering team.

New LWUIT Eye Candy Video The LWUIT team just posted this new video to youtube showing off some of the latest features in LWUIT together with some tried and true features. Check out the drag & drop functionality and "swing-in/swing-up" dialogs and menus. Very cool!

Enterprise option for Java ME technology

Mobile Enterprise - the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of Sun's Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP). Its five-year mission: To explore strange new devices. To seek out new cell phones and new services. To boldly go where no mobile enterprise sofware has gone before.  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 14, 2008)

Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C

The Computer Science curriculum needs to be updated to reflect today's reality. Read this interview for information about integrating mobile devices into the CS curriculum... —  Qusay H. Mahmoud
  (Aug 14, 2008)

Todays featured java.net article: An Introduction to the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) Java ME allows us to write applications that are, generally speaking, portable across a wide range of small devices that support the platform. While the basic functionalities usually work well on all supported devices, the area that does pose problems for developers is the user interface. ... It is in this context that the arrival of Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) is so exciting.

Free, free, free: Free Java ME games!

The 3 best words you like to hear when it comes to Java ME games: free, free, and free. Here's QuicklyBored.com's take on how to get around the carrier's stranglehold and get all those Java ME games that you've ever wanted... for free!  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 14, 2008)

Super Monkey Ball - Tip N Tilt: Java ME game for your phone

From what I can tell about this Java ME game, you're not just a monkey in a clear ball rolling around collecting bananas, but you're a super monkey in a clear ball rolling around collecting bananas. Yeah. Much different... riiiight.  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 13, 2008)

LWUIT released as open source! Sun introduced the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) to the developer community at JavaOne this year. And today, as promised, the complete LWUIT source is being released into open source! Read more ... Terrence Barr More technical details on the release in the LWUIT blog The official "On The Record" announcement

Gartner: Sun Vendor Rating - Open Source upgraded to "Strong Positive"
Gartner grades Sun as Overall Positive in a recent report. Gartner published its new vendor rating for Sun Microsystems, Inc. in June 2008, rating the company as positive.

Holy Heckle and Jeckle: Scripting for MIDP/Java ME technology

David N. Welton pointed out (in one of my blog post comments) that he has a cool tool for writing MIDlets from a Web browser using his and Wolfgang Kechel's open source Mobile scripting language called Hecl.  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 11, 2008)

Case Study on Java DB (Derby)

Francois Orsini's case study on micro kernel architectures and Java DB (Apache Derby) contains some very good references and ideas about the topic. Francois discussed the evolution of the micro kernel architectures and notes some of its modern uses. —  Masood Mortazavi
  (Aug 12, 2008)

Google's Android sinking further and further into quicksand

When a technical project like Google's Android is mired in the quicksand of slipping delivery dates and bailing developers (who are abandoning Android faster than rodents from a sinking Titanic), it's hard for all those still stuck in that quicksand to see all the struggling just makes them sink faster into the pit.  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 08, 2008)

REST and Java ME

Everybody is talking about REST and RESTful Web Services. Let's take a micro looking into it and see how to deal with JSON, XML and other related stuff in Java ME ! —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Aug 13, 2008)

T-Mobile taking a bite from the Apple playbook

T-Mobile is rumored to be starting up an App Store themselves, just like Apple has for the iPhone -- except T-Mobile is smarter and will offer Java ME apps instead of the more limited iPhone apps. That's using their noggin.  —  hinkmond
  (Aug 08, 2008)

Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days 2008 Call for Papers

The Mobile, Media & Embedded Developer Days 2008 Call of Papers is now open and will remain open until September 15, 2008. MMEDD will be held in Santa Clara and the Santa Clara Auditorium November 12-13, 2008 —  Roger Brinkley

Java Mobility Podcast 53: Campus Ambassadors and Sun Spots

Sun Campus Ambassadors Tom Martini Petreca and Lucas Torri talk about the Sun Campus Ambassador program and their work with SunSpots. (Aug 11, 2008)

Growing bigger and badder: Java ME open source phoneME

Bigger and badder: The popularity of phoneME Advanced keeps growing and growing. Roger Brinkley pointed out that markmail.org keeps statistics of our https://phoneme.dev.java.net mail forums since we open sourced Java ME technology way back in aught six. Look at that nice upward trend line! :-)

(Aug 06, 2008)

Fast Java ME prototyping and usability study

One of the fun parts of working with Java technology is the ability to do fast things like prototyping a mobile UI using a regular Web browser (which has Java technology already available).

(Aug 05, 2008)

September: The Month of Java in Brazil
Let's imagine for a moment, a entire nation talking about Java technologies for a whole month. Think about Brazil then. From September 10th till September 30th, Brazil will have 16 Java conferences, thanks to power of Java User Groups all around. If you are anywhere near to Latin America, consider to drop by. —  Mauricio Leal
  (Aug 27, 2008)

Developing MEP Connectors - Part 1

Developing an application using the Sun Java Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) requires writing two components: a sync client application that runs on the mobile device and an enterprise connector that enables the MEP gateway to access the back-end system where the data is located. Ryan has already provided an intro on the architecture and features of the client SDK, so in this blog entry I'll introduce the Enterprise Connector Business Object (ECBO) API which is part of the server SDK and can be used to write enterprise connectors. —  Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
  (Jul 30, 2008)

Announcing release of cq3G test suite

The cq3G project is a suite of 48 tests based on 24 Test Cases for GSMNA - 3G Americas (3GA) Test Specifications for JAVA Micro Edition, Revision 1.0.3 February 20, 2007. 3G Americas operators and manufacturers in the Americas to represent the GSM family of wireless unites mobile technologies - GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS/HSDPA. For more information regarding GSMNA please go to GSMNA Test Specifications for JAVA Micro Edition ...

Just released! phoneME Feature MR3 We're excited to announce the new milestone release 3 (MR3) of the phoneME Feature project. As you know phoneME Feature is a live code base which is being continuously evolved by the efforts of community members as well...

Symbian and open source: Who's going to show up?
There has been quite a lot of press around Nokia's announcement to buy Symbian, unify S60, UIQ, and MOAB, and open source the platform within two years. This move highlights a number of important things such as the intensifying battle... —  Terrence Barr

Highlights from O'Reilly Open Mobile Exchange (OMX) at OSCON2008
Symbian OS goes open source, but will it be a threat to Linux? Is the browser going to be the new open mobile platform? Here are some highlights from the OMX... —  Qusay H. Mahmoud
  (Jul 22, 2008)

The battle of the mobile platforms
I have been hearing a lot lately from various people, especially those who are starting now new ventures, but also established companies about their tendency to develop their apps to the new kids in the platform block (iPhone and Android) while abandoning older and more established platforms, especially J2ME. —  Ofir Leitner

Pandora's Box opened with Java ME technology
Run for your lives! Pandora's Box has been opened by Java ME technology for your cell phone! Ahhhh! :-O No need to fret, really. Pandora has had this streaming music service for a while now both for the desktop and for your Java ME tech-enabled mobile phone. —  hinkmond

Android - Lost in space?

On my various trips and presentations around the world I often get asked to comment on Google's Android effort. I've blogged about Android before and mostly what I said then still holds true now. But a couple of things I think have become more apparent since then ... —  Terrence Barr
  (Jul 23, 2008)

Using LWUIT? Let us know!
The Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) project has really hit a nerve and taken off in a spectacular way. The LWUIT forum has had almost 7000 views in just six weeks and a number of developers are heavily involved with... —  Terrence Barr

Do It with LWUIT!
Devx has a detailed introduction on the Lightweight UI Toolkit by Jim White, including instructions on how to get started and developing your first lines of LWUIT code.

ADP Webcast today, July 9 @ 10am PDT: Samsung Instinct(tm) Java Development and Contest
The Sprint Instinct(tm) Java Developer Contest will open soon to consumer and business applications optimized for the new Samsung Instinct(tm) and has a $20K grand prize. Join us to learn more about this great device, development tools and the contest. For more information about the upcoming webcast, click on the registration link.

Lots of activity in the phoneME Advanced project
It's amazing how community activity tends to develop its own dynamics. Over the last few weeks there has been a surge of things happening in the phoneME Advanced project - on several fronts. I thought I'd share some of...

Sun's Java ME technology now on HP iPAQ smartphone

HP iPAQ is now shipping with the Sun Java Wireless Client (SJWC), or Java ME technology for those following along at home. And, Apple continues to hide their heads in the sand. Someday, Apple, someday, someway... — Hinkmond Wong   (Jul 07, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 52: Wireless Industry Partnership and Top Ten Dating Tips For Developers

Caroline Lewko from WIP shares how WIP helps developers negotiate the mobile ecosystem and talks about the new Mobile Developer Wiki that's currently in Beta. We finish up with two selections from her popular talk Top Ten Dating Tips for Developers. (Jul 04, 2008)

ADP Webcast July 9: Samsung Instinct(tm) Java Development and Contest
The Sprint Instinct(tm) Java Developer Contest will open soon to consumer and business applications optimized for the new Samsung Instinct(tm) and has a $20K grand prize. Join us to learn more about this great device, development tools and the contest. For more information about the upcoming webcast, click on the registration link.

Call for nominations: Mobile & Embedded Governance Board
We're pushing ahead with the continuous process of opening Java ME - here is another step along the way. The main purpose of Governance Board of the Java Mobile & Embedded Community (quote) "is to maintain the health and communication...
  (Jul 01, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 51: SEA Technologia

Alexandre Gomes and associates talk about game development with Dino and HoHoHo and the state of mobile and embedded development in Brazil. (Jun 30, 2008)

Mobile & Embedded Community Governance Board Nomations Open
Nominations for two Mobile & Embedded Community Governance Board Members is now open with elections from starting on July 14 and finishing on July 28 —  Roger Brinkley
  (Jun 30, 2008)

BugLabs wins CES "Best Of Show"
This is big! If there was still any need to demonstrate that open source is going mainstream - how about winning CES "Best Of Show"? I apologize for being late with this news - after all, CES happened in January... —  Terrence Barr

Java Mobility Podcast 50: iMob

David Theron, Managing Director of iMob, shares his experience as a mobile developer in South Africa. (Jun 23, 2008)

CHECK IT OUT! The Instinct Java Developer Contest

Sprint is planning its first ever application developer contest, the Instinct Java Developer Contest (Contest), which is focused on the recently announced, new Samsung Instinct. Java Mobile developers will have the opportunity to create an application on the amazing touch-screen phone with a network to back it up, the Now Network. Grand prize: $20,000! Go to the Sprint Developer contest website for more information about the contest and registration.

The Instinct Java Developer Contest

Sprint is planning its first ever application developer contest, the Instinct Java Developer Contest (Contest), which is focused on the recently announced, new Samsung Instinct. Java Mobile developers will have the opportunity to create an application on the amazing touch-screen phone with a network to back it up, the Now Network. Grand prize: $20,000! Go to the Sprint Developer contest website for more information about the contest and registration.

From Sprint: The Instinct Java Developer Contest

Sprint is planning its first ever application developer contest, the Instinct Java Developer Contest (Contest), which is focused on the recently announced, new Samsung Instinct. Java Mobile developers will have the opportunity to create an application on the amazing touch-screen phone with a network to back it up, the Now Network. Grand prize: $20,000! Go to the Sprint Developer contest website for more information about the contest and registration.

From Sprint: The Instinct Java Developer Contest!
Sprint is planning its first ever application developer contest, the Instinct Java Developer Contest (Contest), which is focused on the recently announced, new Samsung Instinct. Java Mobile developers will have the opportunity to create an application on the amazing touch-screen phone with a network to back it up, the Now Network. Grand prize: $20,000. Go to the Sprint Developer contest website for more information about the contest and registration.

Java ME technology entrenched for the long war

Java ME technology is doing well holding off Android and iPhone developers. Here's a survey that shows Java ME still holds a majority (along with .NET CF) as the platform most targeted by developers. ... Bam! Bam! Bam! Java ME holds ground! — Hinkmond Wong   (Jun 19, 2008)

Why do we write open source code?
What do you think about the current period that open source is passing? What do you do for open source and why do you do it? Please, let's have an interesting discussion in this post! —  Bruno Ghisi

VC's vs. Carriers: Wake-Up Call
In their latest newsletter the Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) reports that they are coming across a very strong message reinforced by personal conversations and developer feedback: Bay area VCs won't invest where carriers are indicated as the major business or... —  Terrence Barr
  (Jun 17, 2008)

Forum Nokia Webinar - Signing Java ME applications and Signing them in Java Verified, June 18th 2008
This is your chance to get to the bottom of Java ME application signing and to hear about the new opportunities Java Verified is bringing in the area of application. For more information and the registration link, visit the Forum Nokia Training site.

Perst Lite, an open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java ME (J2ME)
Perst Lite, an open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java ME (J2ME), has been upgraded to version 3.0. Memory and storage footprint are major concerns for developers in Java ME. Perst Lite adds powerful on-the-fly compression in version 3.0 that reduces stored data’s size by three to five times, on average. Coupled with the database system’s already-small footprint, this compression adds another compelling reason for developers to choose Perst Lite for data management on smartphones, PDAs and other small-profile devices. Version 3.0 marks improvements in the Perst’s documentation. McObject has added a concise new 38-page Tutorial and Introduction that guides.Get more information on Perst Lite 3.0 here and Download the new version.

Can I have some fries with that Java ME McObject?

Maximizer Software is extending the reach of Java ME technology to give mobile database support directly to and from your SD card on your cell phone. ... McObject: Two all beef patties, special database, on a SD card. — Hinkmond Wong   (Jun 13, 2008)

Class Properties for JME

A little implementation of Properties class to JME. A simple way to read and store data! —  Neto Marin
  (Jun 12, 2008)

Bringing Java back to life on Palm - Sign up now!
Palm OS has had a spotty relationship with Java. Way back in the ancient days Java ME was born when a few undeterred engineers at Sun Labs managed to squeeze Java into a Palm Pilot via the famous KVM ...... —  Terrence Barr

Java Mobility Podcast 49: Bug Labs

Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Hear Ken Gilmer from Bug Labs talk about this new product and the way it is extending phoneME advanced. (Jun 10, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 48: Sprint on LWUIT, Titan and Windows Mobile

Nathan Smith, Application Developer Program Group Manager, and John Jones, Product Development Engineer at Sprint talk about their past and future involvement in LWUIT, Windows Mobile development and Titan development and Sprint Professional Developer Program. (Jun 04, 2008)

The server outage is over: cross-postings & mobileandembedded.org are working again!
Everything seems to be running smoothly again: the cross-postings between mailing lists and forums and the www.mobileandembedded.org address are all working. Thank you for your patience!
  (Jun 03, 2008)

Contributor and Community Star: Meet Davy Preuveneers
Meet our latest Java Mobile & Embedded Community Star and code contributor: Davy Preuveneers. Davy has been involved with phoneME Advanced pretty much from the start - he supplied early patches to the code base back in 2007 to get phoneME... (read more).

Update on server outage
Looks like the cross-posting between mailing lists and forums is up again. The www.mobileandembedded.org address however is still dead and not being redirected - the provider is still working on it.
  (Jun 03, 2008)

Alert: Server failure affects M&E redirect and cross-posting
Just in:

There has been a catastrophic disaster at the hosting center that hosts the www.mobileandembedded.org redirect as well as the server that handles the cross-posting between all java.net forums and community mailing lists. As such, cross-posting currently is non-functional and to access the Mobile & Embedded home page and site please go directly to http://community.java.net/mobileandembedded/.

Every effort is being made to restore the servers as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience.

JavaOne sessions now posted online
As in the last years many of the 2008 JavaOne sessions and hands-on labs are being posted online at SDN so you can catch up with or revisit sessions. They are freely accessible even if without a JavaOne registration. -- Terrence —  Terrence Barr
  (May 30, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 47: Johannesburg Town Hall

A live recording from the Town Hall meeting at the Johannesburg Mobility Days. (May 29, 2008)

The Evolution of Mobile Phones
A little video with the history of the Evolution of Mobile Phones. —  Neto Marin

11 Things About LWUIT
Our session went very well, those of you who have been to our session saw some of the work we did on LWUIT which is now up and available here: https://lwuit.dev.java.net/

LWUIT is designed for small devices and heavily inspired by Swings design, with many lessons learned. LWUIT is designed for WORA on small devices from the ground up, it works with a single JAR on all devices and incorporates the good ideas of Swing while bringing in lots of the great ideas of current day Java Desktop programming (e.g. SwingLabs).

Progress Indicator & Threads In LWUIT
LWUIT doesn't ship with a pre-existing progress indicator, mostly because making something generic enough for all the common cases is not as simple as it might seem in the beginning. Especially when considering how easy it is to write your own progress indicator...  —  Shai Almog

How Portable Is LWUIT Part 2 - The PSP
A cool thing about J1 is meeting people who are working on great ideas which I wasn't expecting, I met Max Mu before but we hadn't talked too much... Then in J1 he flashed his PSP running a port of Phone ME which was also the subject of his BoF, getting LWUIT running on it was just a matter of beaming the jar over into his device using BT. It just worked, very little needed doing.  —  Shai Almog

I'm back from JavaOne 2008 and it was great!

Hello again everybody. I just had a busy week, cause I went to JavaOne 2008 :) —  Lucas Torri
  (May 16, 2008)

Gish Mobile: Big Pile of Java ME Poo game
This looks like it will be a fun Java ME game. You are a 12 pound pile of poo cruising around your Java ME cell phone, looking in the sewers for gold coins to eat, because apparently that's what you do if you're a 12 pound pile of poo.

LWUIT is the way!
Do you know LWUIT? Nop?! Are you still wasting time drawing Canvas?! —  Bruno Ghisi
  (May 19, 2008)

InvokeAndBlock, Foxtrot Inspired Threading In LWUIT
I previously mentioned that LWUIT has some nifty threading tools inspired by Foxtrot but didn't get into details, this is made worse by the fact that even people coming from Swing don't know enough about Foxtrot. So here I'll try to explain the basic concepts behind this threading approach which many consider superior to the simple approach in MIDP/Swing. —  Shai Almog

Java Mobility Podcast 46: LWUIT - Lightweight UI Toolkit

The Lightweight UI Toolkit development team gather in a round table discussion about the library, it's goal and the impending open sourcing issues. (May 15, 2008)

Faculty Summit on Mobile Devices in CS Education
Qusary Mahmoud, a Java Champion and ME Community Star, from the Centre for Mobile Education Research along with Research in Motion are hosting the Faculty Summit on Mobile Devices in CS Education at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario Canada. This event is for faculty members interested in integrating mobile devices into their courses and across the CS curriculum. The summit will provide a unique opportunity for CS educators at the college and university levels to learn about the potentials of integrating mobile devices in CS education. Attendees will enjoy a day of talks, tutorials, and demos from faculty members, industry speakers and students.

How Portable Is LWUIT?
Read more of Shai's weblogs to get more information on using LWUIT.  — 

Nice to meet you!
JavaOne 2008 is almost over. It was another fun and content-filled event - even if it lacked the big announcements this year. I'll be blogging about some details and interesting things I saw over the next couple of days. One... —  Terrence Barr
  (May 09, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 45: Live from JavaOne 2008

Daniel Steinberg takes his microphone and tours the JavaOne 2008 Pavilion giving listeners an opportunity to experience the booths in the Mobility Village at JavaOne 2008. (May 08, 2008)

The Lightweight U I Toolkit
A Swing-like toolkit for mobile devices that you can have today. —  Daniel H. Steinberg

LWUIT released at JavaOne
The Lightweight UI Toolkit was officially announced to the developer community during yesterday's JavaOne mobility keynote by Jeet Kaul (video and audio archive). An early access binary release of the LWUIT library is available immediately and the full source code... —  Terrence Barr

Excitement in the Air for the CommunityOne Fair

Everyone seemed excited about this free and open developer event... —  Qusay H. Mahmoud
  (May 06, 2008)

The Mobile and Embedded Ecosystem
The mobile developers have the coolest toys. The main reason that I am at JavaOne this year is that I produce the weekly Java Mobile and Embedded Podcast hosted by Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr. My voice doesn't appear in the show so many people don't know that I'm involved, but I have really enjoyed working with this project over the past year and getting to know the members of the mobile and embedded community and the many cool projects you can find there. —  Daniel H. Steinberg

JavaOne: Taking mobile application development out of the niche

Java and mobility enthusiast and visionary C. Enrique Ortiz gives his thoughts on why mobile application development is still a niche activity for developers, and what the hot topics about mobility will be at JavaOne. — C. Enrique Ortiz   (May 6, 2008)

New gaming experiences with OpenGL ES and the Mobile Sensor API
For game developers focused on Java ME, there are two APIs available for creating 3D graphics, the Mobile 3D API (JSR-184) and the OpenGL ES bindings for Java ME (JSR-239). The Mobile 3D API is basically the Java ME equivalent to the Java 3D API we know from Java SE, while JSR-239 is a Java implementation of the OpenGL ES standard managed by the Khronos Group (there is also a Java SE implementation of the standard OpenGL API called JOGL). Click here to read more.

Java ME Internationalization with "home made" solution!

How to implement internationalization support on your application without JSR 238, but with a "home made" solution!! =) —  Neto Marin
  (May 01, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 44: John Charles, Airscape Down Under CTO

John Charles, CTO of the Australian based Airscape Technology shares his views of the mobile world and why he believes that now is the time to be developing applications for mobile devices. (May 01, 2008)

Coming soon: Swing for mobile Java, but better

Welcome LWUIT (Lightweight UI Toolkit)! For years, Java ME developers have faced difficult choices when it comes to application UIs. Because of the multitude of platform and device features and differences there was really no common UI story - there... — Terrence Barr   (Apr 30, 2008)

Marging a FX Tetris at JavaOne!
Project Marge got a mini talk in Community Corner! If you want to get introduced in Bluetooth, JSR 82 and Project Marge, that is the place! Also, if you just want to see some cool demos, including a mobile controller for a compiled JavaFX Script game, come there too! —  Bruno Ghisi

Mobile & Embedded Community in FISL 9.0
The Mobile & Embedded Community was greatly represented at the International Free Software Conference, held in Porto Alegre, south Brazil. Look what was showed. —  Alexandre Gomes

Alive and kickin': Java on Windows Mobile

Recently on the Java Champions alias some people were surprised to learn that Java has been available on WIndows Mobile for some time now. Obviously we aren't publicizing that fact enough ;-) . . . so here we go. The phoneME Advanced project open source repository contains a Java SE 1.4.2-compatible stack running on Windows Mobile. — Terrence Barr   (Apr 25, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 43: Mobile Distillery's porting tool Celsius

Razmig Sarkissian from Mobile Distillery talks to Terrence about Celsius, a software solution for porting and optimizing Java ME applications across over 800 phones. (Apr 24, 2008)

Hey, little buddy, it's Java ME tech-enabled eBuddy

Here's yet another instance of a company finding a working business model around Java ME technology. It just keeps getting better. The company eBuddy moved their application from the regular desktop Internet world to mobile devices. With an advertising model on the desktop Web and a revenue-sharing model for their mobile app, it seems they have hit a sweet spot. Java ME technology just keeps making sense (cents)... or dollars in this case! ;-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Apr 23, 2008)

LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game

I impressed. My LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game is full already. No empty seats for late-coming attendees. Maybe you can sit on floor if you really want to join. The result of the lab will be a game application with name "Lost Duke". — Lukas Hasik   (Apr 21, 2008)

Your Mobile and Embedded guide to JavaOne 2008
It's that time of year again ... JavaOne (and CommunityOne)! As always, there is lots of good technical content (in fact, like every year, too much to digest in just a few days) ... and, as last year, I've tried... —  Terrence Barr

Java Mobility Podcast 42: Dalibor Topic joins Sun

Dalibor Topic talks about his first couple of days at Sun as the Java Free Open Software Ambassador. (Apr 18, 2008)

JT Harness 4.1.3 milestone release
The JT Harness 4.1.3 milestone release includes functionality that is supporting JUnit tests and test suites. The JT Harness 4.1.3 milestone release also includes numerous bug fixes. JT Harness 4.1.3 provides complete backwards compatibility with previous releases of JT Harness, and JT Harness users will be able to easily migrate to this release. Additionally, the JT Harness 4.1.3 release (and subsequent releases) are covered under the GPL 2 license plus Classpath Exception. For more information, visit the JT Harness project.

Java on iPhone: "Hello world" x2
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of noise regarding whether or not Java will be on the iPhone. Well, actually, it already is - at least the VM and the basic libraries. JamVM has been running... —  Terrence Barr

News roundup

A couple of interesting news bits have accumulated over the last couple of days ... I'd like to quickly summarize them so they don't get lost: Of course, one of the top news items this time of year must be... — Terrence Barr   (Apr 18, 2008)

Houston, we have liftoff... Java ME CDC/FP running on iPod Touch

Chris P. just sent me his latest diff to allow our Java ME CDC/Foundation Profile to build for iPhoneOS/ARM (to run on the actual iPhone device, not just the simulator). So, here it is: Java ME running on an iPod Touch (yeah, I know you're going to complain it's not the iPhone, but the iPod Touch is the same diff) — Hinkmond Wong   (Apr 18, 2008)

FISL 9.0 - Time to discuss the past, present and future of F/OSS
The 9th International Free/Open Software Conference edition is about to start in Brazil and some Java.Net friends will be present. —  Alexandre Gomes
  (Apr 16, 2008)

Starting with Sun SPOT using NetBeans 6.1
If you do not have a Sun SPOT, do not be bored, you can still have a lot of fun! In this entry, I gonna explain how to start programming the world using NetBeans 6.1! —  Bruno Ghisi

Sun Java Real-Time System Selected for Space Surveillance Radar
The Eglin Space Surveillance Radar (FPS-85), which schedules and tracks catalogued space objects, is currently undergoing a complex modernization process to replace legacy mission-critical components built from one-of-a-kind equipment and custom software. The Sun Java Real-Time System, a high-level development platform for creating applications that require unprecedented execution predictability, will enable ITT to run the new solution using Java technology on Solaris 10 OS and standard hardware. Read more on Sun Java RTS.

Dalibor Topic, welcome to Sun!

Back from a 4 week hiatus (vacation, traveling, and various bouts of flu and colds) it's time to crank up the blogging again ... starting with a great bit of news: We're excited to announce that Dalibor Topic is joining Sun... —  Terrence Barr
  (Apr 15, 2008)

Programming for Cool Devices Using the OpenSource Java ME phoneME Stack
"It appears that much of humanity is meeting and greeting the web through handhelds – and Java ME. It’s kind of thrilling to be the tiniest part of it, even if only as someone who reports on and promotes it." Read on to see what Janice J. Heiss says of a session given by Terrence Barr at Tech Days, which included an update on JavaME.

Java ME says "Hello world."

Here's something I'm working on with Chris Plummer and Dean Long for JavaOne this year. Chris recently was able to build our Java ME CDC/Foundation Profile platform on Darwin OS x86 (hmmm... Darwin OS... I wonder what that means... ;-) ) last weekend. (I think he started on Friday afternoon and was ready with it on Saturday). Faster than you can say, "Java ME rules!" — Hinkmond   (Apr 11, 2008)

New project Marge version! I'm not kidding...
Today, we are proud to announce a new version of the project Marge! [Time for thinking...] Yeah, that's true! This is not an april 1st joke :) We have been working for the last month in new features in marge-core, the framework itself, and also in a new version of Bluechat. Now, we happily present marge-core v0.5, with the following diffs from 0.4.0: Read more.  —  Lucas Torri

SigTest - new Tools project!
The SigTest™ project is based on Sun Microsystem's signature testing and API conformance tool of the same name. The SigTest™ tool makes it possible to easily compare the signatures of two different implementations of the same API. It verifies that all of the members are present, reports when new members are added, and checks the specified behavior of each API member. Originally developed to help in the creation of TCK test suites, it has since evolved into a general purpose tool that can be used to compare any two implementations of an API to determine their differences. The SigTest™ project is being created in order to develop a community that will improve it, further its development, and use it to develop test suites. We encourage you to browse, download, contribute, and get involved.
  (Apr 10, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 41: Down Under - Sydney Mobility Days Town Hall

Roger leads a developer question and answer session of Australian developers at Mobility Days in Sydney. (Apr 09, 2008)

Rumor: Citigroup developing branded NFC phone

It’s all over the web, that according to a report filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Citigroup is working on Citi-branded NFC mobile phone — C. Enrique Ortiz   (Apr 04, 2008)

Building a Java ME Bluetooth chat in 12 minutes...
Building a Java ME Bluetooth chat in 12 minutes... with Netbeans Mobility Pack and Marge 0.5! —  Bruno Ghisi

LIVE!!! Tru-2-Way and OpenCable Discussion on TV of Tomorrow
Catch Roger Brinkley, Mobile & Embedded Community Leader and Phil Bender of CableLabs live talking about OCAP, Tru-2-Way and the Open Cable Project on TV of Tomorrow. Hear it here.

LIVE!!! OCAP Discussion on TV of Tomorrow
Catch Roger Brinkley, Mobile & Embedded Community Leader and Phil Bender live talking about OCAP and the Open Cable Project on TV of Tomorrow. Hear it here.

Java Mobility Podcast 40: Navigon - navigation on your phone

Terrence Barr talks with Phillip Candal about their new Scabler product that has integrated mapping and GPS solution and how it was developed by J2ME Polish. (Apr 02, 2008)

OpenCable InterOp scheduled April 30 - May 2, 2008
InterOp events provide OpenCable application developers and set-top box manufacturers an opportunity to interact with each other in a collaborative, laboratory environment. There is no cost to attend, and an InterOp is a great opportunity to test your application on an actual cable-head end. For this InterOp, there will be technical leaders from several cable companies in attendance, providing further exposure. Please consider attending this event to be hosted at CableLabs in Louisville, CO during the week of April 28, 2008. More details about InterOp goals and requirements are posted on the OpenCable Project within the Mobile & Embedded Community. —  Phil Bender
  (Mar 27, 2008)

New Java ME phone: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

Here's something I'm working on with Chris Plummer and Dean Long for JavaOne this year. Chris recently was able to build our Java ME CDC/Foundation Profile platform on Darwin OS x86 (hmmm... Darwin OS... I wonder what that means... ;-) ) last weekend. (I think he started on Friday afternoon and was ready with it on Saturday). Faster than you can say, "Java ME rules!" — Hinkmond   (Apr 11, 2008)

Workshop on Mobile App Development at SIGCSE
I mainly covered Java ME and the BlackBerry wireless device, and talked about my experience in integrating BlackBerry devices into my programming courses... —  Qusay H. Mahmoud

What is missing about JavaME at next JavaOne 2008?

It is soon time for JavaOne and I always feel "I must go" and I will go also this year! I think JavaOne is about; go to a lot of interesting Java sessions/BOF, meting a lot of new Java people and also discover a lot of new Java products in the JavaOne Pavilion. Some weeks ago The JavaOne Content Catalog (for javaME) is online and I was thinking "what subject is missing in javaME area at this JavaOne?" — Ove Nordstrom   (Mar 14, 2008)

Java Mobile Podcast 39: CQME, Conformance and Quality and jtharness projects in the M&E Community

Kevin Looney, Brian Kurotsuchi, and Mikhail.Gorshenev talk about CQME and jtharness projects and their uses as a TCK testing tool and the possibility of using it for testing applications. (Mar 14, 2008)

Things that iPhone can do that Java ME technology can't

OK. I just found out something that the iPhone can do that a Java ME technology-enabled cell phone can't do... yet. In a presentation today at the OSiM 2008 conference, Fabrizio Capobianco (CEO of Funambol) mentioned the iFartz application for the iPhone. There's no Java ME equivalent (that I know of). Too bad ... Can someone port this please? :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Mar 13, 2008)

CVM JIT Constant Pool Dumps

In a comment in a previous article, Jamsheed asked why CVM's JIT dumps compiled code constants in a seemingly reverse order. Well, here's a discussion about why. —  Mark Lam
  (Mar 13, 2008)

Almost over now, almost over now, Java ME on iPhone SDK!!

Is Sun going to port Java ME to the iPhone SDK? Let me hear ya say: "Oh yeah!" Come to my JavaOne 2008 conference technical session: How to Port phoneME Advanced Software... in May. — Hinkmond Wong   (Mar 11, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast 38: Developing and deploying content in the real world

This week feature listens in the the MEDD Panel session Developing and Deploying Content in the Real World. It is a frank discussion amongst large and small application developers, oems, device manufacturers, carriers, and tool vendors. (Mar 07, 2008)

Terrence Barr at OSIM USA Mar 11 & 12th!
Terrence Barr will be speaking at the Open Source In Mobile (OSIM ) USA conference in San Francisco on March 11 & 12th. Go to the OSIM conference site for more information on speakers and the agenda. And while you're there, keep a keen eye out for Hinkmond Wong, the Community's phoneME Advanced project owner ;-).

Live! From your Java ME cell phone: video streaming!

YouTube is catching a whiff that live streaming video from your cell phone would be a cool thing to have. Uh... duh! — Hinkmond Wong   (Mar 6, 2008)

Open Sourcing the Vast Wasteland

How does a whole nation's digital TV infrastructure, serving nearly 100 million TVs grab you? And thats just the start! Java technology will be at the heart of Brazil's new digital TV standard. And it wouldn't have happened if Java was not Free software. — Rich Sands   (Mar 6, 2008)

Databases for Java ME, follow up: Check out the new ProScout sample app
In December of last year I blogged about Perst Lite, an open source object-oriented database and persistence mechanism that runs on CLDC as well as CDC stacks (and as such, on both versions of phoneME) - and I indicated you'd... —  Terrence Barr

JXTA for MIDP 2.0: an interview with Mohamed Abdelaziz
SDN Staff Writer Ed Ort recently interviewed JXTA project architect Mohamed Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz discusses JXTA and demonstrates how JXTA for MIDP 2.0 allows handheld devices to participate as first class devices in a JXTA network. View the video. The site also contains helpful links to all things JXTA.

Mobility Tech Tip: Java ME and Sun SPOT technology
Bruce Hopkins explores how to use Java ME and Sun SPOT technology to create a low-bandwidth wireless system to read sensor data. He provides two fully functioning applications: the first one is the base station application, which will receive data from the second application, the free roaming wireless Sun SPOT. Read the Tech Tip .

Play with Robots at the San Francisco Java Meetup - March 3rd
This meeting is for both beginners and pros and involves some hands-on "play"-time, so if you'd like to participate, you'd want to be already proficient with Java. Shawn Silverman will present an informal 2-3 hour seminar on Embedded Java and Robotics, featuring Trackbot and SunSpot.

Is Brazil guilty of open source Java?

"Who ultimately forced Sun to open-source Java? Was it external pressure, either from Java developers or the open-source community? Or was it internal, perhaps a mandate from CEO Jonathan Schwartz? Answer: None of the above. According to Jonathan himself, it was Brazil." —  Alexandre Gomes
  (Feb 23, 2008)

Next generation of DVD players to run Java ME technology

Here's a guardian.co.uk article on Jonathan Schwartz talking about open source Java technology. The cool part is the mention of the victory of Blu-ray over HD-DVD. For those who don't know, Blu-ray DVD standard has Java ME CDC and Personal Basis Profile technologies. The la-la-la-looser, HD-DVD technology, had no Java ME technology. Blu-ray, winner--Java ME. HD-DVD, la-la-la-looser, no Java ME. You make your own conclusions. — Hinkmond Wong   (Feb 21, 2008)

Take the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®!
This global program challenges application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps. Registration has been extended to March 7, 2008 for the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - APAC. Sign up now for the challenge.

Barbara on 'Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.' (and indirectly on the future of mobile apps.)
Barbara writes “Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.“, about how the word out there is about mobile web, but what her customers are ordering are Java mobile applications… — —  C. Enrique Ortiz

Bill Foote on Blu-ray Disk Java
In a video at java.sun.com, Bill Foote, Sun's Blu-ray Disk Java (BDJ) architect, explains Java's role in high definition Blu-ray disks, and demonstrates the kind of interactivity it enables.

Senior moment with your passwords? No fret, use Java ME LockCrypt Mobile!

Did you ever have one of those moments where you just can't remember your freakin' passwords? Ahhh! Do you need to drink more Red Bull? Do you need to implant a Non-Volatile RAM chip insider your head? Nah. All you need is the Java ME technology-enabled LockCyrpt Mobile app. — Hinkmond Wong   (Feb 14, 2008)

CableLabs Establishes OpenCable Project on Java.net
Cable operators are delivering on their promise to deploy tru2way interactivity to consumers' homes in the form of tru2way-enabled set-top boxes which utilize Java-based applications. Time Warner Cable already has deployed nearly 600,000 tru2way set-top boxes and Comcast has made the commitment to deploy support for tru2way devices system-wide by the end of 2008. Read the entire press release.

Java Mobile Podcast 37: Announcements for M&E Developer Days In this episode we talk about the Center for Mobile Education research and feature the introductory presentation by Terrence Barr and Roger Brinkley at last month's Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. (Feb 12, 2008)

See you at Mobile World Congress (3GSM) this week in Barcelona
As it turns out I'm hopping over to Mobile World Congress (also knows as 3GSM) in Barcelona to catch up with a couple of companies and folks in the mobile space as well as to attend the Mobile Monday Peer... —  Terrence Barr
  (Feb 10, 2008)

Java Mobility Podcast #36: James Goslings MEDD Keynote Address

Roger and Terrence recap some of the announcements from the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. You'll also hear an excerpt from James Gosling's MEDD keynote address. (Feb 11, 2008)

Ricoh Printers using Java ME Technology

Betcha didn't know that large networked computer printers use Java ME technology. No, it's not the bigger Java SE technology, but instead the smaller Java ME technology that is found in the Ricoh multi-function printers. If you are concerned about space, but want Java SE functionality, Java ME CDC Technology is the right choice for you. Even if you have a lot of memory for Java technology to run, it doesn't mean you have to use it all up for Java technology. It's like the penny jar at the cash register: Use only what you need. :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Feb 5, 2008)

Centre for Mobile Education Research
The Centre for Mobile Education Research (CMER) is housed within the Department of Computing and Information Science at the University of Guelph. The mission of CMER is to engage in leading edge applied research to develop state-of-the-art applications and services to facilitate and enhance mobile education and learning, and to provide leadership in integrating mobile devices into the computer science curriculum. Read more about the Centre for Mobile Education Research.

So, you want to deploy a J2ME app is the US?

We are about to launch a new mobile service in the US. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Well, it's not... You have two ways of deploying a mobile service in the US, and for that matter anywhere in the world. — Ofir Leitner   (Jan 31, 2008)

Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Wrap-Up

Wow, what a week it has been! The Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference ended last Thursday and I think it is fair to say it was a resounding success. Many attendees gave us very positive feedback both personally... —  Terrence Barr
  (Feb 01, 2008)

Your Website Mobile Ready?
I bumped into an interesting (free) tool to check the mobile readiness of a website. Using the tool is as simple as entering a URL and clicking ‘Go’. What better way to try the tool than give it a go on this blog. You can see the results of the scan in a few screenshots [...]

Announcing FallME
Jim Shingler and Christopher Judd have released the first version of FallME version 0.5. FallME is a Java ME framework based on the popular Spring Framework but designed for mobile devices including those running MIDP. This framework provides an IoC container as well as a RecordStoreTemplate. You can download it and find more details at https://fallme.dev.java.net/.

A "Fragmentation Program Office"?
A lot has been blogged about fragmentation in the mobile space, but in certain areas, progress seems glacial. Discussions at the MEDD conference suggest the need for a central role to coordinate work on the many facets of fragmentation. —  Sean Sheedy

A Few Products That Ease the Life of Java ME Developers

A new technical article suggests how to add support for managing source code and for deploying applications. —  Marina Sum
  (Jan 25, 2008)

Making your ME application looks even better
If you think that the most difficult part in writing a Java ME application is make a good looking GUI, you come to the right place. Here is a list of interesting projects that could facilitates you in some way... —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Jan 27, 2008)

Sun SPOT more Open Source than ever
After releasing the Squawk VM as Open Source, Sun announced yesterday that has open sourced the SPOT libraries as well, under GPLv2. SPOTs are small, Java-based, wireless devices developed at Sun Labs. This libraries include the code responsible for wireless communication, sensors control and security at the devices. The news was published in the forum and can be seen the the java.net project website: https://spots.dev.java.net/ —  Lucas Torri

Java Mobility Podcast 35: Live from Mobile and Embedded Developer Days This week's podcast features voices from the first ever Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. We talked to many of the people presenting poster sessions on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus as well as some of the contestant trying to win one of four SunSPOTs. (Jan 25, 2008)

Mobile & Embedded Developer Days - Live The Mobile & Embedded Developer Days live broadcast is now available. Join in and listen to the first ever Java Mobile & Embedded geared for application developers.

The Java Posse: Open Source ME and SE Interviews
Terrence Barr and Mark Reinhold from Sun join us for a pair of interviews about the current state of Open Source Java SE and ME. Check it out!.

Java Mobile Podcast 34: Monfred Kobe on Siemans Ay System
The AySystem: connecting you to anyone or anything, from anywhere in the world and all of the time. Monfred Kobe discusses this new end to end Java solution from Seimens.

Live! Worldwide! Free! Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days broadcast

One of my personal goals for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days was to make this conference different from your average developer conference. Different with regard to the focus (deep mobile & embedded Java content), different with regard to... —  Terrence Barr
  (Jan 18, 2008)

M & E Developer Days - Remote Broadcast
Remote broadcasting of the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days to be hosted on ustream.tv at http://ustream.tv/sun. —  Roger Brinkley
  (Jan 18, 2008)

Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA

Java ME expert Jonathan Knudsen has a new book that is lean, accessible, and occasionally funny: a practical guide to building MIDP 2.0/MSA (JSR 248) applications. The book offers solutions for the complex challenges of coding efficiency, application design, and usability in constrained mobile environments, and it comes with downloadable code. — Jonathan Knudsen   (Jan17, 2007)

MEDD - Social Event
Maria Elena's Restaurant in Alviso isn't your typical conference dinner location. But then the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days, January 23-24 in Santa Clara, CA isn't your typical conference either. —  Roger Brinkley

MEDD - Poster Sessions
If your interested in doing a presentation at Mobile & Embedded Developer Days it still isn't too late. Poster sessions are still available. —  Roger Brinkley

Open Discussion of Developer Issues

Because so many community leaders will be in town for the MEDD conference next week, Terrence Barr has reserved a room from 9 AM to 1 PM on Friday January 25th for a discussion of issues facing individual developers. If you have an interest in this aspect of the community, read on. —  Sean Sheedy
  (Jan 17, 2008)

Mobility Podcast 33: Simon Phipps on Open Source
Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses some of the key points from his keynote address at FOSS-IN late last year in India. We look ahead to the upcoming Mobile and Embedded Developer Days.

Bugger! It's Java ME tech in Lego-like gadgets!

Bug Labs has done it! They put Java ME technology in Lego-like components that "snap" together to form all kinds of interesting hardware forms. Cool. Now I can build that Lego house I always wanted but with Java ME running in the guts. And, so what if there are no Windows... :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Jan 14, 2008)

Time is Running Out…
With the registration closing on January 18th, there is only seven days left to reserve a spot at the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. This is a two day event that covers a great deal of ground as it applies to mobile technology. From information on the future of the mobile and embedded community, to [...]

Java ME Optional Packages in Y2007

Java ME Optional Packages Y2007 summary —  Petr Panteleyev
  (Jan 10, 2008)

Carnival of the Mobilists # 105 at Mobile Point View
The first Carnival of the Mobilists of 2008 has been published at Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog. A great edition it is with lots of great of entries from mobility bloggers from around the world… Check it out!

Adding a Humidity Sensor to Sun SPOT
Last month I got a Sun SPOT from a friend that came back from US and I can say that the kit is very cool and easy to use. Now, in my way to learn more about it I decided to add a Humidity Sensor to the board. —  Lucas Torri
  (Jan 08, 2008)

Blu-ray w/Java ME tech picked by Warner, HD-DVD going buh-bye

Oh, happy, happy, joy, joy. HD-DVD is going through its final death throes as Blue-ray (the one with Java ME CDC technology) hammers the nail in its coffin by cinching a deal with Warner to provide their movies only on the Blue-ray format starting this year. Bum, bum, bum, badda-da-da-bum-da-dum... Sing along everyone... — Hinkmond Wong   (Jan 09, 2008)

Do we need a Mobile Developer Alliance?
I think most people would agree that feature-rich mobile platforms and unfettered wireless data services coupled with a new wave of content (rich, interactive, integrated, dynamic, personalized, meshed) will be catalysts for the next phase of the participation age. The... —  Terrence Barr
  (Jan 09, 2008)

Article: Device Fragmentation of Mobile Applications
Device fragmentation is having to produce multiple versions of an application to run on multiple devices. It increases the required effort in almost all aspects of software life cycle. This article analyzes various aspects of device fragmentation, such as the reasons behind it, the current state of the art in tackling it, and the directions we can expect it to evolve in the future. Read more of the article.

Artilce: Device Fragmentation of Mobile Applications
Device fragmentation is having to produce multiple versions of an application to run on multiple devices. It increases the required effort in almost all aspects of software life cycle. This article analyzes various aspects of device fragmentation, such as the reasons behind it, the current state of the art in tackling it, and the directions we can expect it to evolve in the future. Read more of the article.

Article - Java Developer Journal: Mobile & Embedded Community Fosters Greater Innovation
Mobile & Embedded Community Evangelist, Terrence Barr, discusses the Community's members, projects and the upcoming Developer Days conference. Read the article.

Happy New Year! And only three weeks to go ...
While I did try ;-) to take a much-needed break over the holidays I was still quite busy updating the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days web site with the latest information, speakers, and sessions. The agenda is now final... —  Terrence Barr

Java Mobility Podcast 31: SunSPOTs Roger Meike talks about SunSPOTs, the device that InfoWorld has named one of the Must-have gadgets for the discerning geek. You'll hear about community, code, and plans for great presentations at January's Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. (Dec 25, 2007)

Java Mobility Podcast 32: Holiday Wishes and Resolutions As we enter into the Holiday season, the Mobile & Embedded Community wishes all a happy holiday wishes in a montage holiday greetings and new year resolutions. (Dec 25, 2007)

Sun SPOTs triple-shot: Open sourcing, Podcast, and the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
If you haven't noticed, Sun SPOTs are really starting to take off. I blogged about some developments a couple of months back but this month we have a "Sun SPOT triple-shot" for you! First, a first wave of SPOT-related code...

Naughty or very naughty, you can still play this Java ME Christmas game

You better watch out, you better not cry. Java ME technology is coming to town with this new Christmas themed version of Blocker Breaker from Gameloft. ...Well boil me in plum pudding and stick some mistletoe in my ear. This looks like fun! :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Dec 20, 2007)

Take our Mobile & Embedded Community survey
13 months after inception we're now really seeing the Mobile & Embedded Community taking off in a big way. Be it accesses to the site, code downloads, forum activity, or external contributions of code and entire projects ... all metrics...

Java ME Cell Phone Users in China Exceed 500 Million

Java ME technology keeps growing and growing. In China the number of cell phone users exceeded 500 million in Oct. 2007. The number of Java ME mobile game players is forecasted to reach over 24.43 million in China alone. — Hinkmond Wong   (Dec 14, 2007)

Mobility Podcast 30: Sun Tech Days & FOSS/IN This week Terrence Barr reports from the Sun Tech Days in Frankfurt, Germany and Roger Brinkley talks about his time at FOSS/IN in Bangalore, India and the Sun India Tech Days. You are invited to take a new survey and Terrence interviews Michael Samarin from FUTURICE. (Dec 14, 2007)

Title: Java Mobile Podcast 29: Sun Tech Days & FOSS/IN This week Terrence Barr reports from the Sun Tech Days in Frankfurt, Germany and Roger Brinkley talks about his time at FOSS/IN in Bangalore, India and the Sun India Tech Days. You are invited to take a new survey and Terrence interviews Michael Samarin from FUTURICE. (Dec 14, 2007)

Only 6 weeks to go: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days countdown newsletter
Wow, time sure is passing fast. Just a little while ago January seemed so far away ... and now it's only 6 more weeks until the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference. There will be so many interesting things... —  Terrence Barr

Fast Eddie not fast enough

Poor Fast Eddie was not quite fast enough over at Motorola. Even though he promoted the Linux/Java stack on the new generation phones at Motorola, I guess that's not enough and revenues actually do matter. Someday, CEOs will be judged by their planning and forethought instead of their quarterly earnings... Yeah, fat chance! Ha! :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Dec 11, 2007)

Vote for developer.com Product of the Year 2008!
The voting catagories include Technology, Framework, JSRs, Development Tools, open Source Tools, and much more. For information on the voting rules & process and to vote for your favorite product, go to developer.com.

Databases for Java ME, part 2: Not just JavaDB but also Perst Lite
In September I blogged about JavaDB/Derby for phoneME ("Need a database with your phone?"). There has been a lot of interest in this and people are using JavaDB/Derby in real-world deployments now with the phoneME Advanced (CDC) stack. However, I... —  Terrence Barr

Developing OpenOffice.org Extensions in Java!
You can develop extensions for your OpenOffice.org suite... with Java! Wow! There is a huge community around it, plugins to make your life easy, good documentation... so, what are you waiting for?! —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Dec 07, 2007)

Mobility podcast #29: Mobile Content Lifecycle Management There are seven steps to successfully bringing a mobile application to market. In this episode Steve Heney of Tira Wireless discusses this mobile content lifecycle management which includes market planning, design, development, adaptation, testing, channel readiness, and distribution. (Dec 06, 2007)

Thanks for great Frankfurt Tech Days!

Just came back from the Tech Days in Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks to the organizational team and in particular Ulrike Werneck from Sun Germany for putting this together! The venue (the Frankfurt Congress Center) was perfect, the organization was flawless, and... —  Terrence Barr
  (Dec 06, 2007)

Take the Mobile and Embedded Community survey
Community members are encouraged to take the Mobile & Embedded Community survey. It has been more than 12 months since the launch of the Community and we know that Community membership is up, there has been tremendous growth in new projects and the forums are active. But we won't know how well we're doing until we hear from you. So please take the Community survey and let us know!
  (Dec 03, 2007)

Developer Days: Last 24 hours for discounted registration!
If you've been procrastinating signing up for the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference - well, you've got just a little over 24 hours left. The early bird discounted rate of $175 ends November 30th. Make sure you've had... —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 29, 2007)

SDN's Identity Management Hub Offers Many Resources

Recently redesigned, this hub offers numerous references and resources. —  Marina Sum
  (Nov 29, 2007)

The tide is turning
A while back I blogged about the importance of open access to technology, in particular to network infrastructure, protocols, and bandwidth ("Open technologies need open access"). Well, it seems like the tide is finally turning. Verizon has announced it will... —  Terrence Barr

Must-have gadgets for the discerning geek: Sun Spots tops the list!
So you want something that not everyone else has already discovered. InfoWorld has looked beyond the merely cool to uncover seven items that the truly leading-edge tech cognoscenti will want on their holiday lists. Read the entire article. Find out more about Sun Spots.

great to be JavaME developer

It looks very nice all new Java features of Nokia's S60 3rd Ed. fp 2 Because of Nokia's new S60 Java VM, we will get better performance for JavaME applications, possibility to dynamically extend the virtual machine with new APIs. Read more. — Ove Nordstrom

Early Bird Discount for M&E Developer Days
The early bird discount for the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days ends November 30. From now until November 30 at midnight the price is only $175 for the two day event.

Java ME loves me so, for the Java-ME-tech-enabledMobileVirtualBible tells me so

There was this kids show on TV around 30 years ago about an animated claymation boy named Davey and his talking dog Goliath. Davey would ask his big dog Goliath something like, "Gee, Goliath, I don't know if I should download these pirated MP3 files or not." — Hinkmond Wong   (Nov 27, 2007)

"Radical" SVG Makeover - Not your plain old Java ME app anymore (+ screencast)

Bored of plain old Java ME apps and lcdui.*? Want to spice up your applications with slick graphics and animations and make them more engaging? See Terrence Barr's blog and screencast to learn more about the "Radical SVG Makeover" project as well as all the things the Mobile & Embedded Community has to offer to application and content developers. Terrence Barr   (Nov 20, 2007)

"Radical" SVG Makeover - Not your plain old Java ME app anymore + screencast
Bored of plain old Java ME apps and lcdui.*? Want to spice up your applications with slick graphics and animations and make them more engaging? See Terrence Barr's blog and screencast to learn more about the "Radical SVG Makeover" project. —  Terrence Barr

"Radical" SVG Makeover - Not your plain old Java ME app anymore
A couple of years ago at JavaOne the Java Desktop team started the "Extreme GUI Makeover" series where Chris Campbell, Shannon Hickey, and Roman Guy took a plain old Swing application and pulled out all the stops to rework it... —  Terrence Barr

Mobility podcast #28: Talks on upcoming Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days Podcast hosts Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr are joined by members of the selection committee for January's Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. They talk about the different types of sessions that have been scheduled for this conference with C. Enrique Ortiz, CTO at EZee, Sean Sheedy, Java ME Consultant and Eric Arseneau, Sun Microsystems. (Nov 20, 2007)

Mobility podcast #27: JVTOS (TV set top box) at Cineca Research Lorenzo Pallara is a researcher with Cinceca Research, a consortium of 25 Italian universities. The JVTOS project is a open sourced Java based end to end interactive TV broadcasting platform based on phoneME advanced. (Nov 19, 2007)

Highlights from Caravana Tecnológica GUJava/SC

Recently, Bruno Souza wrote about the tour that they were doing in some Latin America cities. Unfortunately, he had to travel to Russia, but the awesome guys (Tim Boudreau, Tim Jacobson, Maurício Leal and Eduardo Lima) came to visit Florianópolis. Here it goes my highlights and some pics... also, if you are a JUG leader, you will probably be interested in two tools that I will comment in this entry! —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Nov 18, 2007)

e-Week article features Terrence Barr: Sun Shines on Mobile and Embedded Community
Terrence Barr, the Technical Evangelist for the Mobile & Embedded recaps the last 12 months since the launch of the Community in November 2006. Read what he says about the projects, the Community members, participation and the direction for JavaME.

Sample MIDlet for Mobile Client to WS

NetBeans Mobility Pack provides you a wizard for creating of stubs to connect to a webservice from mobile client. The stubs are generated according the J2ME Web Services Specification - JSR 172. Therefore the client will run only on devices with support for JSR172. — Lukas Hasik   (Nov 15 2007)

Apple not commenting on Terrence's promise to run Java ME on iPhones

I work with Terrence Barr in our Java ME Mobile and Embedded Community group, so I can kid around with him. ;-) NEWSFLASH: This just in... "Terrence goes on the line and promises Java ME running on all iPhones by next year..." Or, so the headline would read if we wanted to twist around his quote on Internet blog posts. ;-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Nov 14, 2007)

November 13 is Java Liberation Day!

Remember a year ago, when we turned the world upside down with one of the largest contributions to the Participation Age in history? I thought you did! — Rich Sands   (Nov 13 2007)

Lucky 13
13 is my luck number. I wore it on my baseball uniform and on my school issued books so having the Mobile & Embedded Community Launch on November 13 was no big deal. —  Roger Brinkley

Happy Birthday Free and Open Source Java!
A year ago to this day on November 13, 2006, Sun released Java (ME, SE, and EE) under GPLv2. Wow, a year ago already? Here's a little flashback: the original press release and the announcement site with interviews and... —  Terrence Barr

It ain't over until the Java ME browser sings

Opera Mini has released their version 4 of their Java ME technology-enabled Web browser for cell phones. The new improvements include zooming and landscape mode, like you get on the iPhone browser. ... And of course, with Java ME technology, you can run Opera Mini 4 on a wide variety of wireless devices. That's the whole point. :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Nov 9, 2007)

Update: Great content coming for Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
The reviewer group for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days content is finishing the first round of rating the submissions. I thought I'd give you a little preview of some of the things that have a high likelihood of... —  Terrence Barr

Sooo, what about Google Android and phoneME?

Over the last 24 hours very little news and lots of opinion and speculation hit the airwaves about Google's Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance. Our very own community member Sean Sheedy has this very detailed blog entry to... —  Terrence Barr
  (Nov 07, 2007)

Red Hat Joins OpenJDK
I was very pleased just now to see that Red Hat has announced they are joining the OpenJDK community to work on and use the Java implementation being developed over there. They have signed the contributor agreement as well as the OpenJDK TCK license. Read more details.

On the Android announcement - a bullet list
A friend in the industry asked me for my opinion on the Android news, and this was my response. —  Sean Sheedy
  (Nov 06, 2007)

My review of Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Technical Sessions

Reviews of the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days continues this week as the team of reviewers analyze the submissions —  Roger Brinkley
  (Nov 06, 2007)

Announcement to the cqME and JT Harness Communities:The classpath exception added to GPL2 licenses.
In response to requests from their communities, the cqME projects (ME Framework and the cq3G test suite) and the JT harness project has added the classpath exception to their GPL2 licenses. The addition of the classpath exception allows a greater opportunity for community members to produce and distribute products based on the software in these projects. For more details, go to the cqME or JT Harness project.

Mobility podcast #26: Tricastmedia Mail and TWUIK Dr. Brian Lee and Dr. Salmon Ahmad introduce their Tricast Mail and push technology for delivering user information to cell phones. It uses TWUIK which greatly improves usability with dazzling graphics, vibrant animation in an engaging rich-media user experience. (Nov 02, 2007)

Geertjan throws down gauntlet to Java ME

It is long time ago when the most productive NetBeans blogger Geertjan promised to look at Mobility Pack. he finally found a time! Here is the result . . .. — Lukas Hasik   (Oct 31, 2007)

36 hours in the life of the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days organizer
The last 36 hours have been quite a ride. Full of highs and lows and not much sleep. I'm still not sure if it's dream or reality but I think I remember that James Gosling is going to be our keynote speaker. —  Roger Brinkley

Developer Days News-Flash: James Gosling, and over 60 papers submitted
Things are really coming together for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference. Here is a brief news-flash: We have secured none other than James Gosling himself for the keynote of the conference. What's more, he pretty much gets... —  Terrence Barr

Google Phone uses Java technology on top of mobile OS

Here's a blog post on gigaom.com that talks about the Google Phone. It uses Java technology as the middleware layer on top of a highly optimized mobile OS. Of course, using Java ME CDC as that middleware layer is a natural choice. — Hinkmond Wong   (Nov 1, 2007)

REGISTER NOW FOR THE JAVA MOBILE & EMBEDDED DEVELOPER DAYS CONFERENCE!!

  (Nov 01, 2007)

Nice interview on 360mobile.us & Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
John Muchow did an interview with me for his site 360Mobile.us. I like it! Thanks John. As for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days: This is promising to be an exciting event. We've received a ton of great paper... —  Terrence Barr

Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days Call for Papers - One More Day

Only one more day for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days call for papers and the submissions thus far promise a very strong conference. —  Roger Brinkley
  (Oct 31, 2007)

Announcement to the cqME and JT Harness Communities: Intent to add the classpath exception to GPL2 licenses.
In response to requests from their communities, the cqME projects (ME Framework and the cq3G test suite) and the JT harness project will add the classpath exception to their GPL2 licenses. The addition of the classpath exception allows a greater opportunity for community members to produce and distribute products based on the software in these projects. The classpath exception allows members to link the software in these projects to an independent application to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of the independent application, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of the member's choice, provided that they also meet, for each linked independent application, the terms and conditions of the license of that application. The produced executable would not be subject to the GPL requirement that it be offered to the public under the GPL. For a general discussion about the GPL variations and their impact, see: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp.
If you have any comments or concerns about these changes, please submit them to the project forums: cqME or JT Harness. The licensing changes will be rolled out on November 6, 2007.

Coming soon for the cqME and JT Harness Communities: Intent to add the classpath exception to GPL2 licenses.
In response to requests from their communities, the cqME projects (ME Framework and the cq3G test suite) and the JT harness project will add the classpath exception to their GPL2 licenses. The addition of the classpath exception allows a greater opportunity for community members to produce and distribute products based on the software in these projects. The classpath exception allows members to link the software in these projects to an independent application to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of the independent application, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of the member's choice, provided that they also meet, for each linked independent application, the terms and conditions of the license of that application. The produced executable would not be subject to the GPL requirement that it be offered to the public under the GPL. For a general discussion about the GPL variations and their impact, see: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp.
If you have any comments or concerns about these changes, please submit them to the project forums: cqME or JT Harness. The licensing changes will be rolled out on November 6, 2007.

Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference

Sun has announced the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days Conference, January 22-24, 2008! This should be a great event as all the content is focused on mobile! Read more. — John Muchow   (Oct 26, 2007)

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Meet me at Sun Tech Days, Dec. 3-5 in Frankfurt, Germany
Sun Tech Days, Sun's worldwide developer conference, comes to Frankfurt, Germany this year in December. The agenda will contain a special Java ME section called "Mobility Day" - with technical sessions on NetBeans Mobility, Graphics and Media, Programming Cool Devices... —  Terrence Barr
  (Oct 26, 2007)

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - really cool!!

This is a device I have waiting for, I will buy it! It is the first Nokia Internet Tablet with a keyboard and GPS. I will also be able to install JavaME/CDC1.1/FP1.1 on it, thanks to phoneMEAdvanced! — Ove Nordstrom

Sun: Plenty of Life Left In Java ME
In a recent update to its Java roadmap, Sun Microsystems pretty much omitted any discussion about Java Micro Edition (ME), which would seem to be a bad sign for the embedded language. However, the company insists there is plenty of life in technology and it won't be abandoned any time soon. James Gosling today updated his blog to state rather unequivocally that Java ME is not going anywhere (something he probably should have said at the roadmap press event last week). Read more . . .

Mobility podcast #25: Panel on Open Source Dalibor Topic, Kaffe.org; Fabiane Nardone, Brazilian Health Care; Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashlee Vance, The Register form a panel of outsiders reviewing Sun's Open Source efforts. This session isn't specific to Java ME technologies but is worth listening to as it relates to open source as a whole. (Oct 24, 2007)

Java ME is not dead: James Gosling sets the record straight

The good thing about blogs is it allows everyone to set the record straight. Here's a blog post from James Gosling setting the record that Java ME technology is not actually dead. Phew! Reminds me of Dr. McCoy from Star Trek, "He's dead Jim!". Not exactly. Java ME is alive, but it's life, not as we know it. ;-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Oct 24, 2007)

Call for Papers for Java M&E Developer Days is ending!

Call for Papers for the first Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days, hosted by Mobile & Embedded Community, will end on October, 31. So, do not miss the time, send your ideas now! —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Oct 18, 2007)

Adieu Java ME?
Just came across this c|net article titled "Sun starts bidding adieu to mobile-specific Java" - which sounds quite dramatic until you set the context. The long-standing trend of hardware evolution is especially obvious in mobile and embedded devices that today... —  Terrence Barr
  (Oct 23, 2007)

Java ME tech on the iPhone: Won't be long now...

It won't be long now that Stevie-boy has opened up the iPhone for development, for Java ME technology to be ported to the device. The GPL'd phoneME Advanced stack will be a cinch to put on the iPhone once the SDK goes out. I see people on slashdot have already figured that out. Anyone want to make predictions about how long it'll take or what form it'll come in? — Hinkmond Wong   (Oct 19, 2007)

Java ME technology is a real killer! ...in middleware

The Web site linuxdevices.com reports on the Set Top Box 2.0 conference (did I miss the Set Top Box 1.0 conference???) which takes place in San Jose, Calif. on Dec. 6. Ooo-wee! Sounds like a real hootenanny. Or something... :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Oct 16, 2007)

Mobility Podcast #24: The Mobile and Embedded Community Stars Listen to a round table discussion with Terrence Barr and some of the Mobile and Embedded Community Stars: Maurico Leal, Joe Bowbeer, Hartti Suomela, and Bruno Ghisi. (Oct 16, 2007)

Mobility Podcast #23: Johannes Eickhold on porting phoneME advanced to the Nokia N800 Johannes Eickhold is a Research Staff Member at the University of Karlsruhe. While most his of work is on Peer-to-Peer networking he is also working on a distributed Java VM on eight bit micro controllers to leverage that peer-to-peer network. Johannes talks about his experience porting phoneME advanced to the Nokia N800 and future directions that the community should take for this device. (Oct 10, 2007)

Jonathan Knudsen is at it again: Preview his new book at OOPSLA, October 22nd

Jonathan Knudsen is an accomplished technical writer who has published dozens of books and articles on Java and Java ME over the years. He is currently working on his latest book "Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA" which will be... —  Terrence Barr
  (Oct 09, 2007)

Java ME on Windows Mobile
Couple words about getting Java ME on Windows Mobile —  Petr Panteleyev
  (Oct 08, 2007)

Java ME tech-enabled ROKR Z6 released in Pakistan

Motorola released the ROKR Z6 in Pakistan recently. As you probably recall, it's a Linux and Java ME technology-enabled cell phone that packs a punch as a music player. — Hinkmond Wong   (Oct 4, 2007)

Vivek Jishtu: You've been slashdotted... for your post about Java ME

Heh-heh. Poor, Vivek. He posted a totally innocuous list in his view of the Top 10 Best Platforms for Mobile Development and he gets slashdotted. Lots of interesting comments to his blog post. Oh, by the way... Number 1 was "Java ME Technology". Natch. :-) Vivek gives both the pros and cons of Java ME technology. Even though he ranks us first, there are areas for improvement. We're listening, Vivek. Congrats on getting slashdotted! :-) — Hinkmond Wong   (Oct 3, 2007)

How Java M&E Developer Days came about...

Well THIS is exciting - after spearheading a "what do you think about this" email discussion among some M&E; luminaries, Roger Brinkley has officially announced the call for papers for "Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days". It's on! Given the buzz among the experts who were included during the formation of this event, it's not one to be missed... —  Sean Sheedy
  (Oct 02, 2007)

Java Mobile Podcast 22: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
The Mobile & Embedded Community is hosting the first ever Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference January 22-24, 2008 at the Sun Santa Clara Campus Auditorium. The conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool vendors, OEMs and carriers

"JavaOne ME" announced

Well THIS is exciting - after spearheading a "what do you think about this" email discussion among some M&E; luminaries, Roger Brinkley has officially announced the call for papers for "Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days". It's on! Given the buzz among the experts and the focused nature of this event, it's not one to be missed... —  Sean Sheedy
  (Oct 02, 2007)

Announcing: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days, January 22-24, 2008
Have you been missing a dedicated conference for mobile and embedded Java? A place to get together with peers, community members, and industry experts to deep-dive on all things Java mobile & embedded? A conference that is driven by the...

Johnathan Knudsen on "Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone"
Jonathan sent me an email that he will be teaching a tutorial on Java ME programming at OOPSLA in October. Read the details from his email. —  C. Enrique Ortiz

Mobility podcast #21: The Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC and CDC
Sun's Wireless Toolkit Team discusses the state-of-the-art toolbox for developing wireless applications that are based on Java ME's Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Connected Device Configuration (CDC).

VM Inspector 0.1: Some new stuff

Some new features have been added to the CVM's VM Inspector. This entry will give you a quick update on this. —  Mark Lam
  (Sep 22, 2007)

Brief Report from the Open Source in Mobile conference
I just returned from two days in Madrid, Spain, attending and speaking at the "Open Source in Mobile" (OSiM) conference. This was not your typical open source conference. The focus was clearly on the decision makers, executives, and strategists of... —  Terrence Barr
  (Sep 20, 2007)

Use Java ME tech to monitor Windows & Solaris servers

Did you ever wish you could be intimately connected with all your servers via your Java ME technology-enabled cell phone? Read on . . . — Hinkmond Wong   (Sep 19, 2007)

Making your point on standards matters
The MIDP3 Expert Group (JSR-271) is meeting this week, and if you have something on your mind that you want the EG to take notice of, now would be a good time to act. Feel strongly about something? Try the personal approach. —  Sean Sheedy
  (Sep 18, 2007)

ME Application Developers project update: News, new featured applications,
The ME Application Developers project is becoming a treasure-trove of content for application developers. Over the last couple of weeks and months we've added the Mobile Ajax sub-project, the phoneME UI Labs project, and the brand-new MobileAerith demo. The wiki has been updated with more good information and links to several JavaOne sessions on relevant topics have been added. The ME Application Developers project front page also has been updated to highlight the new content. See more!

Betavine Project: Context Messages
There is an interesting new project at Vodafone’s Betavine website that is called ContextMessages. Check it out. —  C. Enrique Ortiz

Java Mobile Podcast 20: Mobile AJAX Web services and mash-ups of web services really bring a whole new dimension to the web and mobile computing. Terrence Barr, Vincent Hardy, and Akhil Arora have create Mobile AJAX as a subproject of the meapplicationdeveloper project to make it very easy for the Java ME developer to harness the power of Ajax-style web services. Interesting applications can be built by combining (mashing-up) information from these multiple sources and remote web services, limited only by application developers' imaginations. Mobile Ajax highlights what is possible through a number of demos as well that utilize libraries that interact with web services. (Sep 17, 2007)

Proudly presenting: The Mobile & Embedded Community Stars!

At the end of the day external participation is what makes or breaks an open source community. The virtuous cycle of open source, external participation and contributions, leveraging each other's innovation and work, and feeding it back into the community... — Terrence Barr   (Sep 14, 2007)

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ME Application Developers project update: News, new featured applications, and wiki updates.
The ME Application Developers project is becoming a treasure-trove of content for application developers. Over the last couple of weeks and months we've added the Mobile Ajax sub-project, the phoneME UI Labs project, and the brand-new MobileAerith demo. The wiki has been updated with more good information and links to several JavaOne sessions on relevant topics have been added. The ME Application Developers project front page also has been updated to highlight the new content. See more!

MeetMoi makes Java ME a Meet Market

The Mobile Web 2.0 is now a meat market, especially with all the preponderance of new wireless Social Networking software based on Java ME and Bluetooth technologies. Just program your Java ME cell phone to trigger when you walk by a Bluetooth-enabled match of your dating preferences, and beep-beep-beep . . . — Hinkmond Wong   (Sep 13, 2007)

My First FX Bluetooth App
Hey! Today I felt a desire to create something with JavaFX Script and Bluetooth. I have posted my experiments. :) —  Bruno Ghisi
  (Sep 12, 2007)

Invasion of the Podcasts for Java ME

Daniel H. Steinberg has produced the latest Mobile & Embedded podcast (#19) with Roger Brinkley doing an interview about the phoneME Advanced MR2 dev release, and Terrence Barr giving some good insight on the topic. — Hinkmond Wong   (Sep 12, 2007)

Java Mobile Podcast 19: phoneME Advanced Update phoneME Advanced has just released the MR2 Development Release that includes a both source and binary releases. Hinkmond Wong, the project lead, says this release features Window CE and Mobile support with an MIDP stack. Hinkmond also discusses the ports currently going on with Linux GTK and phones where this can be run and future development directions. Don't forget to take the Topic for phoneME Advanced Web Seminar poll in the phoneME Advanced Forum. (Sep 11, 2007)

JavaFX != JavaFX Script

I recently gave a presentation at the Portland Java Users Group about Java FX. After talking to some of the fine members of PJUG I realize that there is a lot of confusion about JavaFX and JavaFX script. JavaFX Script... —  Joshua Marinacci
  (Sep 10, 2007)

It's not the size of the boat, but the motion in the ocean

Jonathan Schwartz gives an interview to Australian IT News and mentions how Java ME technology drives infrastructure sales for Sun. Fair dinkum, mate! — Hinkmond Wong   (Sep 10, 2007)

What is new in JT harness 4
Here you can find my classification of new features available in the new major revision of the JT harness, that we recently completed —  Alexey Popov
  (Sep 07, 2007)

Need a database with your phone?
In one of our recent podcasts we interviewed Rick Hillegas from the Apache Derby project (also known as JavaDB). JavaDB is a compact, easy-to-use, feature-rich relational database that runs on platforms supporting Java 1.4 and later. We in the Mobile... —  Terrence Barr

Google Java ME phone a-comin', and will be a Category 5

Here come the rumors of the Google Java ME cell phone ahead of its release. Now all you iPhone owners will have to suffer GJMEMPE - Google Java ME Mobile Phone Envy. See: Google's Java ME phone better than Apple's iPhone Here's a quote: + The Google Phone OS is based on a mobile variant of Linux, and is able to run Java virtual machines. + All applications that run on the Google Phone are Java apps. The OS has ability to run multimedia files, including video clips. Thousands of iPhone owners are asking, "Why, why, why did I lock into a 2-year contract? Oh, G*d, why..?" Boo. hoo. Hinkmond

Java Mobile Podcast 18: phoneME UI Labs, a resource for next generation of highly interactive and animated UIs the Java ME platforms
phoneME UI Labs is the one stop resource for developers to learn about the advanced UI technologies in Java ME platform. Aastha Bhardwaj talks about scalable vector graphics (SVG) in JSR 226 and JSR 287 and the demos that developers can find in UI Labs.

Flashback to 1992: Video of the Green project

As many of you may know the Java language and runtime concept was born as part of Sun's "Green project" in the early nineties. The Java platform was originally designed to fit the needs of mobile and embedded devices even though... —  Terrence Barr
  (Aug 31, 2007)

What's the Diff?
You've been working with the phoneME Advanced code base (or one of the other projects) on java.net, and you see that someone has checked in some code with a certain revision number. How do you find out what that change is for? This entry will give you a clue. —  Mark Lam
  (Sep 01, 2007)

Smart phones smarten up and mostly use Linux and Java ME

Smartphone developers are smart enough to realize they should be putting Java ME technology on top of Linux cell phone platforms. Oh yeaaaaaaah... — Hinkmond Wong   (Aug 30, 2007)

Mobility Podcast 17: JavaDB, a database implementation for all the Java plaftorms
Java DB is Sun's supported distribution of the open source Apache Derby 100% Java technology database. Rick Hillegas, Sun Senior Staff Engineer and Apache Derby developer, provides insight into uses of JavaDB and talks about upcoming features in the next release.

A sense of style for Java ME technology

Well, if you've thought Java ME technology has lacked a sense of iPhone style,here ya go! A sense of style from Cornerspace for Java ME. — Hinkmond Wong   (Aug 27, 2007)

Ask The Experts - MSA: questions and answers available online
Thanks to all who participated in Ask The Experts. Questions and answers for this event topic, Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), are available to view online. Keep checking our Community page, and the Mobile and Embedded Community forums for announcements of future Ask The Experts events.

New Releases for Mobile and Embedded projects: phoneME Advanced, ME Framework and JT Harness
For more information, see the announcements for JT Harness 4.1.1, phoneME Advanced MR2, and ME Framework 1.2.

MSA: Ask the Experts thru Aug 24th!! See what people are asking and better yet ...
Find out what the experts are saying this week about MSA. Questions and answers are available online. If you have a question about MSA, we invite you to participate in Ask the Experts this week.

Feeling lonely? Talk to your phone with Java ME technology

There was a farmer who had a dog, and Vlingo was his name-o. V-L-I-N-G-O... Eh, too many letters. Vlingo brings voice recognition to Java ME cell phones using a MIDlet that can fill in text fields with what you say into the phone. — Hinkmond Wong   (Aug 21, 2007)

Your chance to "Ask the Experts" on the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA)

Summertime is slow, seems like lots of people are on vacation these days. Still, the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA or JSR 248) is hitting the market this year and being deployed in a large numbers of devices throughout 2007 and... — Terrence Barr   (Aug 21, 2007)

Your chance to "Ask the Experts" on the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) - Aug 20 - 24th

Summertime is slow, seems like lots of people are on vacation these days. Still, the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA or JSR 248) is hitting the market this year and being deployed in a large numbers of devices throughout 2007 and... — Terrence Barr   (Aug 21, 2007)

Its Day 2 of Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME optional package that defines the next generation Java ME platform. Your questions will be answered by Java ME Community Project Owners Hinkmond Wong (phoneME Advanced) and Mikhail Gorshenev (cqME), and E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager for Java ME SDKs. For more information about this event and how to participate, go to the Ask the Experts page.

Mobility Podcast: Mauricio Leal on Mobility and the Mobile and Embedded Community

Mauricio Leal, Mobility Application Developer and Advocate, discusses the challenges and issues for Developers and Carriers, shares his insight on ever emerging role of mobile devices, and its impact to help bridge the digital divide in developing countries. Produced by Daniel Steinberg.   (Jul 26, 2007)

Mobility Podcast 16: HECL, the scripting language for the JavaME platform
The Hecl Programming Language is a high-level, open source scripting language implemented in Java. It is intended to be small, extensible, extremely flexible, and easy to learn and use. Infact, it's small enough that it runs on J2ME-enabled cell phones! David Welton, HECL project owner, gives us a full view of this scripting language.

Now Available: JT Harness 4.1.1 Milestone Release
The JT Harness 4.1.1 milestone release includes functionality that makes it easier to extend and customize the harness. JT Harness 4.1.1 features include: customizable test output rendering, customizable menus and toolbars, logging support, report merging, and enhanced template functionality. JT Harness 4.1.1 also has the JT Harness tutorial integrated into the repository and binary image. For more information, visit the JT Harness project.

Its Day One of Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME optional package that defines the next generation Java ME platform. Your questions will be answered by Java ME Community Project Owners Hinkmond Wong (phoneME Advanced) and Mikhail Gorshenev (cqME), and E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager for Java ME SDKs. For more information about this event and how to participate, go to the Ask the Experts page.

Starts Monday! . . . Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME optional package that defines the next generation Java ME platform. Your questions will be answered by Java ME Community Project Owners Hinkmond Wong (phoneME Advanced) and Mikhail Gorshenev (cqME), and E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager for Java ME SDKs. For more information about this event and how to participate, go to the Ask the Experts page.

  (Aug 08, 2007)

Is it the Hogwarts Express? No it's the Pocket Express via Java ME tech

Sports, news, entertainment, and weather--you can have it all with Java ME technology on your cell phone. Handmark has a Java ME app called Pocket Express that delivers free SNEW. Gezuntheit! — Hinkmond Wong   (Aug 16, 2007)

Four days until . . . Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME optional package that defines the next generation Java ME platform. Your questions will be answered by Java ME Community Project Owners Hinkmond Wong (phoneME Advanced) and Mikhail Gorshenev (cqME), and E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager for Java ME SDKs. For more information about this event and how to participate, go to the Ask the Experts page.

  (Aug 08, 2007)

Mobility Podcast 15: MSpot brings the world of entertainment to the mobile phone.
Derek Lyon shares their experience in using JavaME technologies on multiple phones, the custom frameworks the company developed, marketing, and how they identified the demographics of their target audience in delivering a whole host of entertainment products in both audio and video formats. For more information about MSPOT go to their website.

Five days until . . . Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME optional package that defines the next generation Java ME platform. Your questions will be answered by Java ME Community Project Owners Hinkmond Wong (phoneME Advanced) and Mikhail Gorshenev (cqME), and E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager for Java ME SDKs. For more information about this event and how to participate, go to the Ask the Experts page.

  (Aug 08, 2007)

BlackBox for the big Mobile

Big Mobile Operator is running Sun BlackBox system —  Alexey Popov
  (Aug 13, 2007)

You're invited to . . . Ask The Experts! August 20-24: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248

Got a question about MSA? Then save the date. August 20 - 24th is your opportunity to Ask the Experts! MSA is the Java ME o