His topia, Her topia, and Mytopia for Java ME tech

Use this Java ME cell phone app called Mytopia to play real-time social networking games--even if the other users you're playing against are using an i-thingie phone or are playing from their netbook on the Web. Hey, it's their fault they play on such 7331 non-Java ME devices, right? —  hinkmond
  (May 06, 2009)

Apache Derby 10.5.1.1 !

Now, a new release of Apache/Derby is out. Francois Orsini has a more detailed note on this. It is great to see that many of the features listed are developed by our small but amazing team of Java DB engineers.... —  Masood Mortazavi
  (May 02, 2009)

On Mobile Applications, Platforms and Monetization — “Show me the Money”

I’ve been keeping track of a very interesting thread at Forum Oxford (FOROX) on the topic of Android phone dissapointing developers (w.r.t. iPhone), with Jason Delport, Alex Kerr, William Volk (who started the thread) and others adding their different perspectives on the matter. All these guys are mobile experts so what they say resonate with [...] —  ceo
  (Apr 30, 2009)

Two kinds of Java ME on TV

What with the doubling of disc sales, better quality players (and even ones that will rent the movie for you...), increased availability and rumored inclusion on the Mac, its easy to think of the only Java apps you'll see on your TV will be the ones that come on a BluRay disc. But not so ! —  dannycoward
  (Apr 30, 2009)

Java for FIRST Robotics Competition

I spent the end of last week in Atlanta at the finals for the FIRST Robotics Competition. This is a competition where high school students build robots that perform some task. This year's task looked an awful lot like building a robotic basketball player ... -- James Gosling —  James Gosling
  (Apr 28, 2009)

M3DD/LA, June 20, Goiania, Brazil

One of the amazing things that came out of our Java Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days conference was that a couple of Brazilian folks immediately started talking about organizing a similar event in Brazil ... —  Terrence Barr
  (Apr 27, 2009)

JavaVerified: LWUIT's Killer Feature?

I'm generally very excited about Nokia's upcoming Ovi store, I think it has the potential to empower smaller developers to deliver content to end users. One of the decisions made by Nokia is to go with Java Verified for the QA and signing of application for Ovi.  —  Shai Almog (noreply@blogger.com)
  (Apr 23, 2009)

Java ME Platform SDK 3.0, Java's Amazing Adeptness, and more Jersey

Yesterday's Java Today included Danny Coward's discussion about the benefits of the new Java ME SDK 3 release. Today I'm highlighting the Java ME SDK Team's formal announcement... also:

• Java Today: Released: Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 now available, Jersey and Spring, and OpenDS, the Java OpenSource LDAP Server - This Week's Webinar.
• Weblogs: Announcing Pivot 1.1, A Generic CRUD Facade for your @Entity Beans, and How to store preferences?.
• Forums: Re: How to dynamically create and use Queues? (JMS), Re: Why are strings containing Japanese characters not being handled ?, and Glassfish support dynamic class loading from stand alone RMI app clients?.
• Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 77: Sound of Motion.
 —  Kevin Farnham
  (Apr 22, 2009)

Connecting with the Oracle... with Java ME technology

In the movie, The Matrix, the Oracle tells Neo that he can use his Java ME tech-enabled cell phone to manipulate the Matrix. But she says he's waiting for something... maybe his next life. Of course, Neo does get resurrected into his next life with the help of Trinity where he kicks major butt fighting against the Matrix agents who are enemies of the Oracle.  —  hinkmond
  (Apr 20, 2009)

Speaking tomorrow (4/21) at SDG in Helsinki

I just got back from a much-needed 5-day vacation break (Italy/Lago Maggiore region). Benissimo! ... and no Internet connectivity, either ;-) Just a quick note that I will be speaking tomorrow (Tue, April 21) at the SDG (Startup Developers Gathering) in Helsinki, Finland. —  Terrence Barr
  (Apr 20, 2009)

Java ME news from CTIA

The wireless industry likes to get most of its big conferences over with before summer starts. Following MWC in February (when JavaFX Mobile was released), its CTIA Wireless this week. —  dannycoward
  (Apr 02, 2009)

The dawn of a new Industry: Java@Digital TV in Brazil

(March 6) Today, it was announced the first conference towards Digital TV in Brazil, counting with key players in the industry such as Globo (Brazil's largest TV broadcaster), Intel, Sun Microsystems, CESAR Institut, University of Paraíba and SouJava (Brazil's largest JUG).

The conference will be called Java@TV Digital toward Java Developers and it will be held on April 2nd at University Anhembi-Morumbi (Vila Olimpia Campus). If you are near by, we're certainly would like to see you there. We might have a conference website soon.

A Look at the Increasing Popularity of Open-Source Software

For all that viability of open-source software is an old subject, an article in The Guardian reports that the current economic slump is definitely seeing increasing adoption. —  Marina Sum
  (Mar 31, 2009)

Planet Cast Two: James Gosling on Java and JavaFX

Tune in to the second in the Planet Cast podcast series with a conversation (~35 mins) with James Gosling all about what get's him excited, starting with an impromptu poety reading, but mostly all about what's going on in with Java and JavaFX.
 —  dannycoward
  (Mar 30, 2009)

USA patent no. 6,199,048 (NeoMedia) is weak and harmful to our industry (Part 1)

As (mobile) technologists we must be aware of and recognize the potential for harm when obvious/weak-patents are granted by the Patent Office. We should be able to trust the patent system, but the system is weak. In particular I am here writing about the USA patent 6,199,048 (PDF) titled “System and Method for Automatic Access of [...] —  ceo
  (Mar 29, 2009)

Searching for Java ME

It's good to see companies focussing on what new products to ship rather than buyout rumors (the Planetarium never gets distracted by those). —  dannycoward
  (Mar 27, 2009)

What if IBM acquires Sun Microsystems?

I’m sure that by now you have heard the rumos of IBM potentially buying Sun. Even yesterday Intel CEO says Sun was shopped around (cnet news). Why is this a significant announcement and why I think Intel’s CEO is wrong? Well, besides acquiring an iconic and historically-rich company in the Valley when it comes to technology, [...] —  ceo
  (Mar 26, 2009)

Here in the world of JavaFX 1.1.1

It was easy to miss Tuesday's 1.1.1 update to the JavaFX platform, SDK, NetBeans and Production Suite in the week Sun kicked off the JavaFX coding challenge.  —  dannycoward
  (Mar 26, 2009)

3D Fast and Furious Java ME Game

Here's a video of 3D The Fast and the Furious Java ME game on a Nokia cell phone. What? No choice to drive a mini-van in the game? Hmfph! That's no fun... See: No mini-van in 3D Fast and Furious —  hinkmond
  (Mar 25, 2009)

A Tale of Two Challenges

A lot has happened since I last blogged. The JFXStudio hit 33k hits with 50 posts, I've started working on a new secret project built with JavaFX, and we had a rockin' booth at SXSW last week. I'll cover SXSW... —  Joshua Marinacci
  (Mar 22, 2009)

Watchmen movie in Java ME game

The good part of any blockbuster movie hit that comes out nowadays is that it also means a cool new Java ME game gets released with it. Here's the Java ME Mobile game for The Watchmen movie. There's action, adventure, and lots of mayhem as masked vigilantes take on the task of fighting crime. —  hinkmond
  (Mar 17, 2009)

Java ME tech: in the last sentence of IBM article

If you are reading an article about the rumored takeover of Sun by IBM, you'd like to think that the first thing mentioned would be that Java ME technology is awesome and is probably (OK, maybe not that probably) the big reason why IBM is offering to pay Sun $6.5 billion.  —  hinkmond
  (Mar 18, 2009)

Unite or Die: Java ME technology

Here's a Register article about Eclipse Pulsar trying to rally mobile manufacturers and service providers around a single common tooling environment. —  hinkmond
  (Mar 13, 2009)

Learning JavaFX

Even as the team thinks about what might be included in the next release of JavaFX, the expanding series of new articles on topics like JavaScript to JavaFX communication, incorporating media, and zooming and panning on mobile at javafx.com, all the upcoming books, its good to remember that really the only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.  —  dannycoward
  (Mar 13, 2009)

Yet another Java ME tech app store

Javaground (not ground java) has yet another app store for Java ME apps called Xpressed. Oh, how original: a play on words around the coffee metaphor. Haven't seen that before with a Java product, have we now? ;-) —  hinkmond
  (Mar 13, 2009)