Five Years On, Has J2ME's Time Finally Arrived?

jg21 writes "Although he admits to having been frustrated by the slow adoption of the J2ME platform, software developer Eric Giguere believes that we're 'turning the corner.' He remembers Sun demonstrating Java running on Palm OS 'way back in 1999 when so many hoped the wireless Java revolution was just around the corner. Five years on, with notable successes such as the J2ME-enabled BlackBerry wireless handheld, that has already made a billionaire of RIM founder Mike Lazaridis, Giguere claims that, with most of the new handsets being produced supporting either JTWI or else its key component - version 2 of the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) - developers finally now have a more consistent and capable platform to use for application development. Anyone wandering round this week's CES may be inclined to agree."

Comments

...slow adoption?????

[gl4ss]

HELLO????

open any teenager magazine(at least in europe) and half the adverts are for j2me games(and ringtones.. sigh.).

and practically all phones are coming with j2me now...

Re:J2ME is worthless

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know of a real (not vaporware) on-device debug capability for a J2ME device? There was supposed to be one for the KVM I was using but it really just wasn't there at all.

Here's a working link

[Eric Giguere]

Here's the actual working link to my guest editorial.

Eric