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20071024 Wednesday October 24, 2007

Java ME is not dead: James Gosling sets the record straight

The good thing about blogs is it allows everyone to set the record straight. Here's a blog post from James Gosling setting the record that Java ME technology is not actually dead. Phew!

See:

James Gosling says Java ME is not dead
(Read all the comments in the above link. Some good suggestions and feedback. Good thing about blogs: Able to gather feedback right away)

Here's a quote: 

 JavaME is *not* dead!  It's growing up. 
 Sheesh. Some folks are far too eager 
 to misinterpret statements and put 
 words in my mouth.

Reminds me of Dr. McCoy from Star Trek, "He's dead Jim!". Not exactly. Java ME is alive, but it's life, not as we know it. ;-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( October 24, 2007 09:35 AM ) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

I have gone through Core java and .NET. I am a fresher to J2ME technology. I am worried about the growth rate of J2ME in future. I am thinking if I want to shift to .NET technology. Could someone please let me know about the growth of J2ME in future.

Posted by Anand Krishnan on October 24, 2007 at 09:48 PM PDT #

Hi Anand,

Java ME technology is still growing very quickly with every major cell phone carrying MIDP 2.0 and newer phones implementing the JSR 238, Mobile Services Architecture (MSA). There are billions of Java ME phones and they are not going away anytime soon.

dotNET technology, on the other hand is dead. There are not billions of phones with .NET.

See: http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN2133906320070927

Hinkmond

Posted by Hinkmond Wong on October 25, 2007 at 05:55 PM PDT #

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