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No Java JRE on Pocket PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-help-out dept.

Ben writes "I have an Open Letter to Sun at the PersonalJava forum (7th June) requesting Sun Micrososystems produce a free Java JRE for Microsoft Pocket PC - its over year and a half ago since they stopped work on one. If you're wondering why you should care its because Microsoft is the only competitor in that market and has no real competition. Java should flourish on mobile devices, why is Sun letting Microsoft get a foothold with .NET? If you are a Java developer for mobile devices please add a note of support to this open letter."

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  1. Jeode by Samus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I signed it specifically because Jeode on the PocketPC is nowhere near adequate. Its not a PocketPC native app. Rather it was designed for the old CE devices that were wider than tall and have window borders. An app I wrote for the Zaurus looks wretched on iPaqs. I wish this story would get on the main page but then it would probably be filled with Java is too slow posts and nothing really relavant to getting a good VM on PocketPC platforms. Sun will really miss out on an opportunity if .Net CF takes the lions share of easy PocketPC development.

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  2. Inferno or "Why I don't care about Java" by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno

    It's a Virtualised OS in Windows/FreeBSD/Linux,plan9 and also runs native on x86, ARM & others

    Dennis Ritchie is one of it's fathers, what more could you ask for?

    Virtualising the OS means it's feels like the bare metal but's it's just a reflection map.

    It truly is "write once, run anywhere".

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  3. Re:While you're at it by rgraham · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Something is happening on this front, look here:

    The [IBM] J2ME runtime will be "developed and fine-tuned" for the Tungsten line, and will be backed up by a free SDK that will work with any J2ME development environment, though IBM will naturally by touting its WebSphere Studio Device Developer set, which it will be optimising for the creation of Palm-hosted Java apps.

  4. HP Chai by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Check out HP's Chai VM... it's discontinued, but I believe it still supports 90% of Java on PocketPC.

    1. Re:HP Chai by Effugas · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's discontinued because it's insecure beyond all that is holy...FX brutalized it to create a whole new class of network attack (using printers against the rest of the network).

      --Dan