Thursday September 02, 2004 Round Web services peg into a square J2ME hole
Sometimes the cluelessness of the Wireless industry makes me sigh. :-| There's the very common mistake technologists make of envisioning something that is AOIT (ahead of its time). That's the case with Web services on cell phones. Companies are trying to stuff SOAP, XML, OSGi, downloadable/provisioned Java apps to cell phones way before the technology is ready for that. Wrong move. The flakiness of 3G networks, the CPUs on phones, the OS on phones, and the J2ME functionality (especially as it relates to speed of processing and size) indicate that trying to use the typical Web service client stack will still have to wait until the technology can catch up. See: You have to learn to crawl, then to walk, before you can run. You can't go from simple MIDP 1.0 games to Web services. That's like learning to crawl, then attempting to run the marathon. There are a bunch of steps needed in between to get from the beginning to the end goal.
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