Further to my recent post on the future of Java, I had an email from someone I worked with at Symbian when I worked on the Symbian Java VM implementation. He had attended a session at SEE2009 on the Future of Managed Runtime.
All Nokia S60 phones  S60 3rd fp 2 and later include the IBM […]

Today, Java Verified announced ‘Java Verified Releases Tips for Solving Java ME Signing Issues’. While such tips would be welcome, I haven’t been able to find them on the Java Verified site! At the time of looking, the document wasn’t on the Resources & Downloads page and a search didn’t find it either.
This is […]

It’s always enlightening talking to people from the non-mobile development world and listen to their thoughts on mobile applications. Yesterday, I spoke with a friend of mine who is a pilot for British Airways. He has a new (Java ME capable) phone and has seen other pilots using iPhone applications to fetch specialised airport weather […]

At the end of last year I attended the O2 Litmus launch event. At the time I wasn’t that impressed because there was no way for O2’s users to discover the site from the main O2 Live Portal.
Nevertheless, I thought I’d give it a try. I took some freeware I had for Android and […]

Two years ago I had some thoughts on background applications that might police applications running on the phone. I mentioned this again within the context of the iPhone and more recently within the context of Symbian Signing.
I am pleased to see that the latest version of Android (Donut) includes a battery meter tool that shows […]

Around two years ago I asked why there weren’t that many successful Java ME consumer applications that weren’t games. I went on to conclude that the few that were successful were just a window on more open, capable and consistent processing somewhere else.
It’s interesting to see that a number of development frameworks for […]

You may remember October last year when there was an opportunity to write an Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) book. Well, Biswajit Sarkar took up the challenge and the book has just been published. PACKT publishing have sent me the book for review.
If you don’t know what LWUIT is, it’s a free Java ME […]