S60 Open to new features

Perhaps when the client has 10 GB memory and a processor that can run both OS and JVM, Java apps can run client side.

If Java ME looses its ME part, it will succede. Sure.

As a JavaME developer I know this situation. I think one of the major reasons is the fragmentation of the API's across different devices. If you use almost any additional API capability, you will make the application non-workable for some and for some it will just act weird.

So in order to make a great JavaME application that people can actually use with different devices today, JavaME side of the code HAS to be quite limited. I'm hoping JSR-248 and MIDP3 will change things, so there is still some hope for us JavaME developers :-)

It's easy to understand after these two exercises:

1. Create Midlet that shows text:
Do you think this program sucks?

Left soft key is labelled "no", right one "yes"

2. List all standard UI elements from GMail Midlet?

All right, now I start to understand why the Widsets that are available out there seem to be mostly - with a couple of exceptions - pretty useless.

Even if the S60 web browser occasionally eats up all the memory I still prefer e.g. to use Wikipedia through that than through the Widset version.

The same goes for the Flickr Widget and YouTube stuff (no, I am not dreaming to actually see moving images from YouTube but via web browser I can choose what I want to see) and most other stuff..

A few other related comments at http://mobile-phone-story.blogspot.com/

And actually, I love the S60...

Typically there are some small items missing from Java ME which prevents the usage of it. Please implement jni, JSR-248 and MIDP3 in S60 as soon as possible and Java applications will have all possibilities to compete with native applications!