MSA 2 - JSR 249 - Technical Session

A technical session hosted by Nokia and Vodafone where thwy were presenting MSA and the evolution into MSA 2.

MSA 2 will contain 3 stack levels addressing low - mid - high device segment, corresponding to JTWI - MSA sub - Full MSA today.

The low segment excludes graphics and adds sensor api since JSR 248. Mid range focuses on TV broadcast, contactless api, UI customization and XML. High end focuses on IMS with JSR 281.

Some jsrs in MSA 2 are "conditionally mandatory" depending on HW support.

Notably, Nokia, as the co-spec lead still hasn't released a full MSA device. The only vendor that has done that is Sony Ericsson with 14 devices.

There are several new players in the expert group, e.g. Ericsson and TeliaSonera.

MIDP 3 will be included in MSA 2 if released on time. The target schedule is to be finalized in Q4 2008. Just a little bit optimistic, if you ask me, since the same applies to MIDP 3.

Mobility General Session

Jeet Kaul was hosting the Mobility General Session.

First on stage was the CEO for Loopt, a company that has a location based ME application to keep track of your friends.

Next was a presentation of LWUIT - Light Weight UI Toolkit - to be bundled with midlets for consistent user experience across devices. Including great animations and transitions.

Sony Ericsson presented their MSA full set show device - K850i - one of 14 devices with exactly the same application environment. Consistency is key.

Sony Ericsson and Orange expressed their commitment to decrease Java ME fragmentation by creating tighter specifications and better testing through the Java Verified Program.

Sun was announcing that the Java ME SDK is now supporting development of BD-J applications for the Blu-ray environment.

Announcing BDLive.com for developing client-server BD-J applications utilising network.com.

Sun was announcing Project Hydrazine, a means to rapidly create and host web services across all screens. So, basically it's a merge of Project Caroline and Project Destination evolving into a turnkey hosted solution allowing developers to leverage the Sun platform to create applications and services and monetize them without going anywhere else.

Java One Opening

Consumers drives technology innovation.

Rich Green opened up Java One by describing the shift to consumer focused innovation. He got company from Amazon demonstrating the Kindle book reader.

Next on stage was Rikko, SVP from Sony Ericsson that talked about the use of sensors in mobile phones, showing a vision video about seamless networks and unified media.Java is the core strategy to realize this vision.

Nandini was demonstrating a JavaFX mash-up application embedded in a browser. Next thing she was dragging it out off the browser on to the desktop, where it continued to run whith the browser shut down. Also, a desktop shortcut is created, so the JavaFX application can be started without the browser. It looks really neat, and the crowd loved it!

JavaFX to run on all devices.

The same application was also run on a Java ME feature phone.

Later, Eric Klein showcased the same demo running on an Android emulator.

Neil Young on stage!

Rock star Neil Young announcing the release of his entire career on BluRay. Including really cool navigation around songs, pictures, videos, etc.

http://www.java.com/en/java_in_action/neil_young.jsp

Finally, it was the first time I've seen Rich not wearing all black! He actually had blue jeans to his black jacket today.

New Trip Report

Monday morning CET the plane is leaving for San Francisco and Java One.
This will be a really busy and interesting week. The schedule is packed with nine customer meetings with everything from low to high. Some are routine and some are high explosive.

Hopefully I will also be able to attend some tech sessions from which I will put a summary up on Sticky.

So, prepare for a week of no sleep, high mileage and too many Vinnie's specials too late at night.