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JSR Watch: Java Mobile and Embedded Spotlight

The majority of the JSRs that have been active in the past few weeks are in the mobile space

Feb. 29, 2008 06:30 AM

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As I recently spoke at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference at Sun's Santa Clara campus, and the yearly Mobile World Congress conference is held in Barcelona in February, and the majority of the JSRs that have been active in the past few weeks are in the mobile space, I thought it would be opportune to focus on Java ME in this month's column.

First, the Developer Days conference. (Quick summary of my presentation: standards are really important and you ignore them at your peril.) It was lively and informative - the first such conference organized by Sun's Mobile and Embedded developer outreach team (http://community.java.net/mobileandembedded/) but hopefully not the last.

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About Patrick Curran
Patrick Curran is chair of the JCP and director of the JCP Program at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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