[JWtheCoolOne]

Hello,

many fancy things seam to happen in the mobile world in 2007. Apple releses the IPhone, more and more devices get shiped with flash lite, windows mobile 5 is more and more in the focus for enterprise applications, NGAGE arena is comming up, SNAP Mobile will find a way to the operators, interesting and standartised browsing solutions like opera mobile come to market.

I would like to start a discussion about the future of J2ME for mobile services. Gaming, non gaming and browsing services. Maybe in total a discussion about the future of the whole mobile software industry.

Right now the main success of MIDP is in the mobile gaming industry, but what about mobile applications. Will there be any "killer applikation" based on J2ME. Will J2ME still be supported by most handset manufacturers even in the future? Will there be some real inovations in J2ME in the next month, years? MIDP 3 is comming up, but will it really support the features needed?

What about portability of J2ME apps? Will it get even worth by having even more device fragmentation? What about security modells, will the hardware manufacturers come up with better implementations in the future that follow the specs.? There is so many problems with signing MIDlets... What about OTA Distribution? It still seams to be a very tricky process to install software OTA, wrong WAP or ISP settings, confusing platform dialogs that confuse endcustomers during installation process. What's the future?

Maybe you have even some more interessting questions that can be discussed within this thread..

Thanks for your opinions...

Best Regards,

Jan

[peterblazejewicz]

hi Jan,

FN dibos are not so general, so that's hard to start wider discussion here,
see my question:
Shouldn't Nokia have Java platform evangelist position?
(in fact that's wider subject thread)
FN bloggers post more about j2me future, e.g.:
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/view_entry.html?id=252
(and Hartti's/Gopal's blogs entries are worth of reading as well)

for more "evangelized" j2me discussions/blogs see open sourced community:
Mobile & Embedded Community

We should see some de-fragmentation concerned additions from Nokia that year - meaning introducing JSR-248 awared devices into market:
Interview with Asko Komsi

killer-aps? OperaMini, GMail, wide-range of mail clients,

regards,
Peter

[JWtheCoolOne]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for you answer!

I hope I did get your question right, about the evangelist position of Nokia and the J2ME platform. What I can say is, I hope that nokia and it's inovations push J2ME more and more to give us developers the chance to come up with great and inovative products that will give endcustomers a really satisfying userinterface, a simple application management behavoir, less settings problems and...

Where do you see the future of the mobile internet? Will browsing, XHTML, WAP and flash lite take over the role for mainstream information services in the mobile industry, or will specialized J2ME applications take over the role in the wireless industry? Is it necessary to have context and usecase oriented J2ME browsing apps? Is there a chance for connected J2ME applications to be killer applications?

What do you think will make it thin or fat clients?

I can see more and more people combining J2ME and browsing solutions (J2ME app starts the WAP-Browser by a platformrequest) is that the future of the mobile www?

Thanks & Best Regards,

Jan