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LWUIT Released as GPL Open Source
Sun announced the GPL licensing of LWUIT earlier this month. LWUIT is a UI toolkit designed for mobile Java devices.
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Could eRCP become an OSGi standard?
A post to the eRCP newsgroup over the weekend put forward a proposal of putting forward eRCP as an OSGi standard.
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Sun's Java iPhone Port Faces Obstacles
Eric Klein, Vice President of Java Marketing, has announced Sun's intention to port the JVM to the iPhone, but multiple obstacles need to be overcome.
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Nokia sees the Silverlight
Nokia announced it will make Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 available for its S60 phones running Symbian OS as well as Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight will give developers opportunities to create rich and interactive applications running on multiple platforms.
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Catching Up With the .NET Micro Framework
The .NET Micro Framework is the smallest runtime available within the .NET Framework. Able to run in only 512k of RAM without an MMU it is targeted at 32-bit processors.
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Sun SPOTs: Programmable Devices for Java Developers
Sun Microsystems has released the Sun SPOT platform under the GPL license. Sun SPOTs are programmable battery-powered devices controllable with Java technology.
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.NET Compact Announced for Symbian OS
Red Five Labs is bringing the .NET Compact Framework to S60 and the Symbian OS. Symbian is the market leader for smart phone operating systems. In 1995, S60 alone had a 58% market share. Overall, 72% of devices were running S60 or some other variant of Symbian.
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Dalvik, Android's virtual machine, generates significant debate
With the release of Google's Android SDK earlier this week, there was much discussion of the APIs and the expected impact in the mobile space. However, one particular area which generated significant debate in the Java community was the Dalvik virtual machine which is the basis of the Android platform.
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Google's Android SDK Bypasses Java ME in Favor of Java Lite and Apache Harmony
Today Google released the Android platform SDK for Open Handset Alliance devices. Android contains a custom Dalvik virtual machine for running applications written in a subset of Java.
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Pattie Maes on Ambient Intelligence
At OOPSLA 2007, Pattie Maes gave an interesting talk about the MIT ambient intelligence projects. One project, ReachMedia, was particularly interesting from an architectural, mashup and social networking perspective.
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Will The iPhone Be The Tipping Point For Mobile Ajax?
Ajax has largely been a desktop browser focused technology during its initial wave of interest. Apple's iPhone however may be the key to Ajax becoming a mobile "standard" as well.
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Is OSGi the Solution for Mobile Java?
Java ME developers face many obstacles that server-side or desktop Java developers never have to contend with. Nokia, Sprint, and IBM teamed for a JavaOne session that outlined a solution to these problems through an service-oriented architecture based on OSGi
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Motorola Challenges Java Developers to Rethink Mobile Computing
Thursday at JavaOne started with a thought provoking keynote by Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior. Rather than the usual vendor keynote making grand announcements or touting specific accomplishments of her company, Warrior focused on challenging Java developers to think hard about the transformation of the mobile world.
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Java ME Design Guidelines Reduce Porting, Testing, and Maintenance Costs
To help minimize the cost of developing Java ME applications for multiple platforms, Sun and Orange have teamed up to create a set of design guidelines that help developers simplify cross-device development. The goal is to reduce pattern of generating an executable for each device.
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XPe SP2 Feature Pack Whitepaper
Lynda Allen outlines the components of XPe SP2 Feature Pack. This is the first in a series of whitepapers leading up to the Nov. 1 launch of the Feature Pack.