Nokia to Become Involved in Eclipse Development

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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because..

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Java is used on well over half the mobile phones out there (other ones being BREW), and recent Symbian OS (serie 60) are used only by some Nokia phones and like one panasonic. So it makes more sense for software makers to target the Java market.

Re:Great news... or is it?

[gl4ss]

you've had the pleasure of only dealing with the j2me emulators, which are of ok quality and certainly of good quality when compared to most of the competition. the documentation isn't bad and it's easy enough to mess around. however, some of the emulators from them take ages to start up and are _heavy_(especially those based on the crap wins symbian 'emu' - that would be the s60 emus).

but as a whole for example the symbian devkits are a horrible mess, bad documentation, unworking example code etc..

some other pc apps from nokia aren't that hot either, often eating tens of megabytes memory for no apparent reason and yesterday installing pc suite fucked up some msxml dll on my laptop too(after getting the dll from web and regsvr32'ing it .net2003 started again, luckily).

besides.. for eclipse, eclipseme totally rocks and supports nokias emulators as well.