(Excerpt from Sun System News, Volume 77, Issue 2) Setting no limits and tying no bounds, Gosling said that his inspiration for Java came by taking a step back, observing and absorbing the changing context of computing during the mid-90s, which was shifting…
As a person who has been involved in the development of location-based solutions, I see and understand the benefits of geo-fencing, especially for tracking expensive and/or sensitive assets such as vehicles, (perishable) merchandise, or similar. But if applied to people, and if abused,…
The Web Services APIs (WSA) for Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), as defined by the Java Community Process for the Java Specification Request 172 (JSR 172), are two independent optional packages for remote service invocation and XML parsing… Read more at IBM…
Recently Nokia announced its vision for a networked service-oriented architecture for mobile phones. I was finally able to find and read the whitepaper. Some people have claimed this announcement as the most important announcement at JavaOne, a pretty substantial claim. This architecture is…
In response to Michael's blog entry “Write once, pray, and debug everywhere?”, which in turn was in response to Russ' blog entry, I think that: True WORA will never happen. Companies will continue to differentiate themselves. Things have gotten much better though, and…
To “profile” or not to “profile”. That is the question. There is the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), and the Information Module Profile (IMP). And most recently the new Set-top box (STB) profile JSR was submitted to the JCP. In this essay we…
A MIDlet class may manage its own logic and life-cycle, but often a better choice is for it to delegate these responsibilities to a finite state machine (FSM). An FSM provides a simple and effective means to control your MIDlet's life-cycle and overall…
Earlier today the JSR-177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME (SATSA) specification was approved for final release by the JCP Micro Edition Executive Committee. Withouth trying to oversimplify this spec, in summary, SATSA defines how to integrate with Security Elements (SE) such…
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