It's only mild hyperbole to call J2ME a disaster. If you've depended on ME to make a profit, it might not be hyperbole at all.
But good news may be somewhere in the pipeline. This morning I heard Sun CTO Robert Brewin speak at AJAXWorld. His talk largely concerned enterprise services, but when he mentioned that one argument in favor of Java is its ubiquity, and that Java runs on about two billion phones, I couldn't help but stand up and ask for the mic.
Since Robert was ready to acknowledge the existing hassles, my question was: does Sun plan to fix it -- e.g., by becoming more stringent about how devices are certified as Java-capable?
In his response, he punted on the J2ME aspect, suggesting developer could put pressure on device manufacturers to standardize their Java behavior. Since cellphone carriers are players in the equation, I'm awfully skeptical about that. But the cool part was that Mr. Brewin said that the place where Sun plans to really make an impact here is with JavaFX Mobile.
Since JavaFX Mobile, adapted from the Savaje Java-based OS acquired by Sun, is a full kernel-to-app stack, it should provide much better -- perhaps even 100% -- compatibility between devices.
Now let's keep our fingers crossed for full J2SE support on it.
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