In a post from couple of days back, I blogged about the massive market that Nokia has announced for J2ME applications. The comments on that post are mostly pessimistic. Most developers are unhappy with the state of J2ME, with anger directed towards Operators, Manufacturers and Sun equally. This is not an isolated case. Previously, when I had blogged about raising interest in J2ME, I had got the...
Any J2ME developer knows that the promise of write once and run anywhere, like the J2SE promise, is based on marketing genius and little, if any, factual grounds in reality. If anything, it is, worse for J2ME (or Sun Java ME) because there are so many different manufacturers/operators and implementations that it is practically impossbile to put your application out without actually trying your...
While everybody, and I mean everybody, is talking about the coming death of Java and the demise of Struts, nobody seems to be realizing that their is a new frontier on the Java horizon.
Java ME (or J2ME whatever you prefer).
Ok, so it isn't new and it isn't perfect. But I am gob smacked by the numbers published by Nokia. More on this later.
I find it debatable that Java on the desktop or the...
