Monday September 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! See: It's not the size of the boat. It's the motion in the ocean. Here's a quote: Given we serve so many demographics, it is tough to say what Java [ME] on a handset is worth, because the majority of the value isn't on the handset - it is in the infrastructure that makes the handset useful.Put another shrimp on the barbie for Jonathan! He gets why it's so important to keep the Java ME technology momentum going strong at Sun. Oi! |
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I am all for Java ME - our product is built from top to bottom using it. The issue is the quality of the JVMs you find on the world's cell phones. Unless you are running something trivial you run into this. We make a pretty full featured product that allows you to basically download to your phone items listed on eBay, and use them, or part of them as templates for similar items to be listed from your mobile using the phone camera with JSR135 or JSR75. We run on Nokias, Motorolas and even Windows Mobile when there's a good JVM, like IBM J9 or better Esmertec, but we can find the occasional Nokia too, like the E61i that has a fundamentally flawed implementation of Java.
So IMO until the carriers/manaufacturers CARE about installing quality JVMs and QA'ing them, it's an impediment to the otherwise stunning utility and ubiquity of JavaME
Posted by Chris Eastland on September 10, 2007 at 11:15 AM PDT #
Hi Chris,
That's a fair comment. Ensuring high quality of Java ME implementations on handsets is a tough problem to solve. I think getting more carriers to adopt the Java Device Test Suite (JDTS) as a mandatory requirement for any of their OEMs would be a step in the right direction.
See: http://java.sun.com/j2me/docs/j2me_java_device_wp.pdf
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on September 10, 2007 at 11:29 AM PDT #