Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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 .

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