Last month or so has seen a lot of activity in JCP with regards to J2ME related JSRs.
New JSRs:
-- Service Connection API for J2ME:
"A new high-level API for connection services via frameworks supporting identity based services, discovery, and authentication. The API supports Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and other similar network service application models."
-- XML API for Java ME:
"This...
Javaworld reports that Sun and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have combined forces to update DoCoMo's inbuilt Java platform. This platform, called DoJa, was built by NTT in 2001 and is the primary platform for developing applications on mobile phones in Japan.
Why, you may ask. Why not upgrade DoJa to MIDP 2.0 instead, rather than creating a separate breed of the J2ME platform? There is enough fragmentation...
Consider these facts:
-- There are 708 million J2ME based phones as compared to 700 million PC based Java deployments.
-- The market for commercial mobile applications is set to reach $1.6 billion by 2008.
-- There will be an estimated 1.0 billion mobile phones in the world by end 2006.
I presented these facts in my Introduction to Mobile Java presentation last night to the Australian Computer...
I am giving a presentation on Mobile Java this Wednesday (13th July) to the Australian Computer Society's Software Developers Special Interest Group in Brisbane, Australia.
If you in the area and would like to attend please register at the ACS website (under Events). Registration is free for members and $15 for non-members.
Hope to see you there and I will put up the presentation slides up here...
