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Nokia to Become Involved in Eclipse Development

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hands-on dept.

jondaw writes "Builder UK says that Nokia is to become more involved in the direction of the Open Source IDE, Eclipse. 'Nokia has increased its level of involvement in the Eclipse project by becoming a board member and strategic developer. It will take the lead in developing tools for mobile applications based on the Eclipse platform. One if its aims will be to extend the Java-based IDE to have full support for J2ME.'"

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  1. ambitious... by moviepig.com · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nokia to Become Involved in Eclipse Development

    Next quarter, they'll expand into terra-forming...

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. J2ME (soon to have J22K then J2XP? ) by Old+Wolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jave has a Millennium Edition now?

    Also, I wonder if they could contribute to Eclipse by making it faster. Eclipse runs like a dog on my 900MHz CPU , it's even slower than JBuilder (which is saying something). It doesn't have much more functionality than older IDEs which ran fine on a 100MHz CPU (it can put squiggles under spelling mistakes and it can make your code disappear under little arrows, but that's about it...)

  4. Why Eclipse by LoonyMike · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nokia's display technology doesn't perform very well under direct sunlight