Thursday August 17, 2006

Time to come out of the closet.

No, not that closet.

The JavaME closet. The one I have been living in for the last ten years. Yup, that long.

I am the only one still working on JavaME that was part of the team 10 years ago that moved Java technology back onto consumer devices. James, Herb, Curtis, Samir, and myself were the team that was asked by Jon to go figure out how if it made sense to create a version of Java for consumer devices. After all the origins of Java were from the consumer world, did it make sense to take it back there now that Java was out and on the desktop?

Well, that request has made for some serious fun in the intervening years. There are many stories I may yet tell in the comming days and months.

But the real news is that JavaME going to be open sourced. It feels a bit odd. Sort of like when your mother tells you that you really do have to wear clothes in public.

Aaaawwww Mom, do I have to?

This is going to be fun.....

[evil laugh]

( Aug 17 2006, 03:00:26 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]