Sun to say goodbye to Java Mobile
The writing may have been on the wall here for quite a while, but it’s still a bit shocking to hear it from the horse’s mouth, no? James Gosling, VP at Sun Microystems, has revealed that the company is now actively trying to distance itself from the mobile-specific Java ME protocol. "We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. Cell phones and TV set-top boxes are growing up." Sounds like a death blow to us. Could this have anything to do with a certain..ahem…iPhone? It’s important to note that while the company is scrapping mobile Java right now, they expect to continue to support the software well into the next decade. That said, they will clearly be encouraging developers to work with them on the new full-scale product, so look for increased full Java SE support in the near future.
Wow no more j2me?! So what’s RIM gonna do then. J2me has become a backbon of the cell industry for years now.
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Um,
“We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification…”
Java is not going away. It’s just going to get bigger.
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Does it mean, CLDC and MIDP will be part of Java SE and mobile platform will be able to use more set of APIs from Java SE?
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Yes this is okay that for the high end devices you can include whole Java SE platform and for the middle one old Java ME is okay.
But why sun is not developing any rich API for high end devices. like Rich widgets (List, Rich PopupMenu, etc…)
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Disclosure - I work for Sun
Why not read James Gosling’s blog post on this topic -
http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/javame_is_not_dead
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