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Java Roadmaps presented at Symbian Exchange
I participated Symbian Exchange in London last week. We had a small Birds of Feather session there about Runtimes on Symbian. For that I prepared a small roadmap presentation giving out information of what new features our future Java Runtime releases will contain for...
Aleksi, 2 November 2009 |
Java Runtime for S60 Blog, now here!
We are moving our Java Runtime blog to Forum Nokia as the S60.com site has been closed for new posts. Our old Java Runtime blog is still readable from blogs.nokia.com.
J2ME Canvas Qwerty Keyboard For Touch Devices
I have published recently one of the components I was working in some of my free time during the last semester. We can find often developers asking in discussion boards how to enter text in Canvas applications in phones like 5800 or 5530 (Touch...
Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 in beta, improves usability and...
A beta version of Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 (JRT 2.0) has been made available via Nokia Beta Labs . As you may remember ( I wrote about it some time ago ), Java Runtime is now versioned and released separately from the underlying S60 Platform. The latest version of JRT can...
Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 (final) is out
In case you're still interested in developing Java ME applications there's a final version of Java ME Platform SDK 3.0. I wrote about it's features (based on EA version) ealier on my blog . One may note that it's still only available for Microsoft Windows XP or...
Java Runtime for S60 with Mobile Sensor API support,...
First of all, it's worth noting that Nokia has introduced a new naming scheme for Java platform - " Starting from S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 Java Runtime for S60 is versioned separately from the underlying S60 Platform with aim to provide more frequently new...
Happy Christmas with Java ME Google Calendar :)
Hi all! This is my first post on these Blogs as Forum Nokia Champion, so here's a bit about me. My name is Alessandro La Rosa , and I'm a mobile developer from Rome, working as CTO for FuelMobile , an Italian mobile company, while in free time I manage a...
NetBeans 6.5, Java ME inside
Version 6.5 of NetBeans IDE has been released! The 'mobility part' is now included into one standard Java bundle that also contains Java SE, Java EE, Java FX , web components and servers (GlassFish, Tomcat). The installation file is about 212MB ( NetBeans 6.1...
Security prompting improvements on their way to S60
A colleague of mine just pointed me to the new Developing on S60 -blog ("new" is of course a relative term in here :-) on S60.com, where Aleksi Uotila from S60 Java team has written quite a few informative entries on S60 Java implementation. The latest one is...
A first look at Java ME Platform SDK 3.0
Java ME Platform SDK toolbox is the successor to the well known Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 and Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC . It integrates CLDC, CDC and Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) technology into one SDK. It provides device emulation, a standalone development environment and a...
Design for Africa
Mobile services can make a major difference in the lives of users in emerging markets, but developers need to understand how to design for these markets. For example, Africa has more languages in use than any other continent, so user-generated localization allows a...
Is the Java Community Process hindering innovation in...
Specifying new APIs and functionalities through the JCP seems a good idea at a first glance, right? This limits fragmentation in the Java platform, ensures the APIs are agreed upon by a number of stakeholders, and limits the adoption of proprietary APIs by manufacturers,...
Free Tira Wireless' device database
This is sort of old news, but I realized I have not written about this before... Tira Wirless has a free version of its modd mobile device database available on the net (there is also for-fee Standard and Enterprise Editions). The database covers quite a nice number of...
J2ME MPEG update
Some people have shown some interest and asked me to create a repository to make collaboration easier, so I hosted the project at google code. You can check out the code using your favorite Subversion client, or with the command line client: svn checkout http...
Want a sexy UI in your Java MIDlet? It's now possible...
Sexy UIs are all the rage today, right? FlashLite apps, WRT Widgets, WidSets, all of them have distinctive user experiences which differ greatly from the way we interact with native S40 and S60 applications. More colors, more animations, better usability, all making up a...
Off to Java One
I'm about to pack and head off to JavaOne. If you're coming to the show, be sure to stop by Nokia booth 818 and say Hi. I just updated the Continue the Conversation post so you know where the conversations are happening whether you're in San Francisco...
NetBeans Mobility 6.1 (final) is now available
Today, a final version of NetBeans IDE 6.1 has been released. I was reviewing some of NetBeans Mobility features not so long ago . Next point on NetBeans IDE roadmap is version 6.5. Download link for version 6.1
NetBeans Mobility 6.1 - my NetBeans RoadShow story
Some time ago I promised to write small review about NetBeans Mobility. Last week, I attended NetBeans RoadShow 07-08 conference in Warsaw, Poland. Of course, I was mainly interested in sessions related to mobility and new NetBeans features. I had an unique opportunity to...
Continue the Conversation, Live from Java One
We want to help you continue the conversations you start at JavaOne, after hours and after the conference. We have two live Talk to the Guru sessions scheduled online during the conference, one on the new Java API for Location Based Services (JSR 293) and one on a new...
A little bit of hot Java
Pretty interesting document posted by Aleksi Uotila on the S60 Java blog , containing a PDF document about S60 3.2's eSWT plug-in for Java applications. I have been using this toolkit's desktop version for years and I must say I have never looked back to Swing or AWT,...
3D games and more – Java ME course materials available
A few minutes ago, the last upload was finally finished and now symbianresources.com does not only feature loads of Symbian OS-related projects and tutorials, but also the course materials of the introductory Java ME course from the Mobile Computing-department of the...
Getting the page URLs from Java ME Developer's Library
Among the piles of emails I have received this week related to the launch of the new Forum Nokia Developer Community (and thank you everyone for the comments, please keep them coming!), there was an important tidbit of usability improvement in other parts of our online...
Advantages of eSWT
As mentioned before eSWT plug-in for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 SDK is out. My esteemed colleague Jarmo Lahtinen has spent some time with that plug-in, basically creating a new version of his flie browser MIDlet. The differences in the UIs are notable. Here is an...
eSWT plug-in for S60 3rd Ed FP2 SDK
In case you have missed, eSWT plugin for S60 3rd Edition FP2 SDK is available. There are not yet any devices available to run your enhanced MIDlets, but you will be able to get started with more compelling UIs with this plug-in.
Mobile Java developer conference coming in January 2008
I feel kind of betraying the Flash Lite crowd by posting about a Java event while sitting at the Nokia booth at Adobe MAX ... Anyhow, I just noticed at Terrence Barr's blog that there will be a mobile Java developer days (well, Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days...
