Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope we can have interesting discussions about mobile technologies, future improvements, tips and common problems that a mobile developer have . I'm a professor, book writer and developer in Java ME and other mobile technologies. I'm supporting spanish-speakers too, so "bienvenidos".

During May, I was visiting San Francisco and I had the opportunity to be in JavaOne 2006. I assisted to many Java ME sessions and some of them were intesting. The most powerful and useful feature that any mobile UI designer/programmer I saw on JavaOne was the future of SVG (Standard Vector Graphics) in Java ME. We have the JSR-226 to use SVG on our Java ME developments, but the thing is that SVG support will change the way we are thinking the UI in mobile games and apps. We can now make really cool graphic interfaces, with animation support and hotspot zones (we can replace a bored CLDC Form). And it is very easy to create SVG files in many graphic software (like Corel Draw) and to import in our projects. We can handle SVG events in Java too.

NetBeans 5.5 with Mobility Pack 5.5 brings us a new experience in SVG, supporting SVG screens in the flow designer, DOM (Document Object Model) manipulation inside the SVG and (perhaps the most important thing) the possibility to compile an alternative version of the UI converting automatically the SVG in PNG for different screen sizes. Just try the beta!

I hope we can have this feature in Carbide.j... (by the way, did you try Carbide.j?)

Will SVG support in mobile phones stop Adobe Flash Lite? mmm...  Adobe is currently supporting SVG too in its tools.