Joshua Marinacci wrote: > So I think you are saying that JavaME has been useful, but fallen > behind the times. It is now far from cutting edge and you wouldn't > target it for new products. I agree. Sun is aware of this and we have > been & are taking steps to address it. The partnerships and new > review system announced at JavaOne are part of it. JavaFX for Mobile > is part of it too. > But from a developer standpoint Sun and partners seem to have no intent to actually bring J2ME into the 21st century. They touted the new SDK at Sun, but it still does not support Java 5 language features and completely breaks WORA (even assuming you still to the subset of Java supported by J2ME) because you can't write modern Java code and run it on J2ME period thanks to this.
JavaFX is cool, but in this regard it is something of a layer of shellac or a bandaid. WORA will hopefully be preserved for JavaFX, but things will fall on their face as soon as you need to use a Java library. Android in some ways holds up to the WORA promise better than J2ME. -- Jess Holle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
