Ever wonder what people at Sun think about trends spinning out and interacting with J2ME tech? Here’s a glimpse via an interview with one of the originators of the KVM (and hence J2ME, CLDC, etc.), Antero Taivalsaari.
I bet the “luminary” part will give Antero a chuckle. 
Learn more about using SOAP based Web services from PHP via this introduction from PHP Cookbook co-author Adam Trachtenberg. (OK, so the article’s been online for a while…what can I say, I’m playing PHP catch-up…)
Looking for an upcoming Java, net dev, open source, or related technology conference? Check out the java.net Events page. It provides a good overview of interesting and important events in the months to come. Even better: It actively solicits community contributions of upcoming events (you need a free java.net login to contribute events, but anybody can read through the current list, no worries).