The mobile enterprise team at Sun has just announced the general availability of the Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) 1.0. Here's the blog entry from Vella Raman.

Sun's MEP enables mobile access for a range of off-the-shelf and home-grown enterprise applications for a variety of mobile devices and smart phones, including RIM's BlackBerry and Palm's Treo. At the  core of MEP is an open standards-based platform consisting of Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, MySQL and Java ME to provide reliable two-way data synchronization with security, device management, and offline access.

Key features include:
■ Out-of-the-box connectivity to many enterprise application platforms
■ Support for a wide variety of mobile devices
■ Offline access to data when there is no network coverage
■ Encryption and data fading/wiping, which extend enterprise application security to mobile devices
■ Support for over-the-air provisioning of mobile clients
■ Tools and templates that simplify the development and customization of mobile applications
■ Based on open industry standards and robust and scalable Java technologies

For more information, here's an FAQ and the Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform page.

Give MEP a try! You can download the product here: http://www.sun.com/software/products/mep/get.jsp.