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 about security prompting - a chronically hot topic on Forum Nokia discussions to say the least.

The good news is that there are improvements coming:

• A new kind of runtime security prompt which allows user to directly change the security setting for the application (pictured here)
• A set of security policy changes allowing user more control on the settings levels for untrusted and trusted 3rd party

The bad news is that the improvements will not be available on all existing S60 phones:

"The enhanced prompts will be added to upcoming 3rd edition FP 2 (and later) devices but we are seeking to get this enhancement also as a correction to some existing products via Nokia SW update."

Check also Aleksi's detailed posts on touch support for MIDlets on S60 5th Edition devices in the same blog...

As our servers are going to be physically moved to a new hosting center over the second weekend on November (November 8th-9th), the Forum Nokia web site will be unavailable over that weekend. So no discussion boards, wiki, blogs nor the main Forum Nokia Web site is going to be available on that Saturday and Sunday. The break will start on Saturday at 6am EEST and will be over on Sunday at 10pm EEST.

Yes, there is still a couple weeks until the service break, and most of you will forget this announcement by then, so we will remind you of this break also closer to that date :-)