One of my Pet peeves is “why create unnecessary fragmentation?”.

A good example of such unnecessary efforts is JSR-324 the On Screen MIDlet API for Java ME, a JSR that basically attempted to duplicate functionality in MIDP3.

Submitted by Dave Kim of SK Telecom, and initially supported by someone within the following companies: Vodafone, Orange T-Mobile, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Samsung, LG Electronics, SUN, Veloxsoft, JSR-324 is a prime example of someone ignoring all that is happening within the Java community, even after being approached by some of us, and instead decides to press forward to try to fulfill their own agendas.

Drives me nuts…

But fortunately for us, the JCP ME executive committee did their job and voted it Not Approved, with the recommendation of making this part of MIDP3, which is the right answer. Thanks.

You should read how the committee voted for this JSR – see JSR-324 Review Ballot. Anybody who voted Yes either don’t get it (or didn’t do their homework to understand what the hell is going on), or I hate to say, have their own agendas. Period. Not that I’m a conspiracy theory buff, but I can’t resist to say this JSR was network carrier-heavy supported; do network carriers want to take control of the idle screen? Nah, why would they want to do that?

I was surprised by some of the votes from the committee; Sun voted “abstain”, Time-Warner didn’t vote at all (why Time-Warner is in the Java ME committee is beyond me; probably because of OpenCable), and Jean-Marie, the only Individual ME committee member member voted “Yes and with no comment”; Jean you are supposed to protect us, the individual developers; that is why we voted for you.

After all these years, you would think people will know better by now…

The JSR-324 author should have saved his and everyones time and efforts and instead should have contributed any new/different ideas related to on-screen/idle screen to the MIDP3 public review.

Say no to fragmentation.

Announcement

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