I have compiled a little list of options for Java ME and Java SE, which i would put on brainstorm. i'd like to get a few comments on it here first, though
these are mostly options allnameswereout mentioned. i have no idea about the compatibility of open source implementations with the official one. maybe someone could elaborate on that.
i also put in the possibilities of nokia porting open source implementations of SE and ME, though i'm not sure that's even realistic, since it would mean effort without being able to say "Java compatible". if you think these options are not even worth mentioning i will leave them out.
nokia buys Java ME royalities and lets sun port it
+) official implementation, official support
-) probably quite expensive
-) Closed License
community ports phoneme more info
+) GPL
-) no team as of yet
-) not "official", so no advertising of MIDP capability
-) no info as to how complete this implementation is
nokia ports phoneme
+-) see above
nokia or the community ports a Java SE implementation,
and we use smth. like microemu for ME compatibility
+-) see above
-) might be a bit slower
nokia buys java SE embedded royalities and lets sun port it
+) official implementation, official support
-) probably quite expensive
-) Closed License
community ports OpenJDK/JRE 6 more info
+) GPL
-) no team as of yet
-) not "official", so no advertising
-) no info as to how complete this implementation is
nokia ports OpenJDK/JRE 6
+-) see above
community ports Jalimo
+) GPL
-) not much activity lately
-) no advertising, maybe incomplete
I have compiled a little list of options for Java ME and Java SE, which i would put on brainstorm. i'd like to get a few comments on it here first, though
Do you by any chance remember that Nokia already ships J2ME VM with both S40 and S60 phones? In other words, Nokia already has a PhoneME implementation.
Do you by any chance remember that Nokia already ships J2ME VM with both S40 and S60 phones? In other words, Nokia already has a PhoneME implementation.
yes, but not for Maemo. and even if porting from S60 to Maemo would be easy, nokia still would have to license it for the new platform/device.
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Why should "community" port Jalimo which is already ported to the tablet and has packages available from Diablo Extras?
"Simultaneous with the launch of the wiki, we have started to support
maemo4. Currently cacao, classpath and SWT are tested and work fine.
They have the same features and limitations, as for maemo3. But we hope
to improve the support on maemo4, soon. Since maemo moved to gtk2.10 and
cairo, we have some more options on this platform."
to me, that suggests that even more work will be needed to optimize it for maemo5. granted, the build for chinook might run out of the box ( i haven't read anything from people who got a n900 already, links are welcome ).
if it does run well, there is no need for this option and i will not add it.
though that quote also suggests that there is not much activity any more (this entry is from 2007), and if many people vote maybe that could change and even attract new devs for the project.
I just found something on the Nokia Forums: link. that seems to be an official statement, is there any point in including the "nokia options" in the brainstorm proposal now, qgil?
Is the guy who has made this statement working for Nokia?
