Sun 3GSM News

WebServices.org has summarized several of Sun’s 3GSM announcements. J2ME related technologies highlighted in the announcements include:

• Java Technology for Smartphones HotSpot Implementation (based upon the CLDC HI), offering up to six times the speed of the previous CLDC reference implementation while supporting the JTWI and J2ME WSA specifications
• WS-I compliant J2ME WSA supporting XML processing and XML-RPC via JSR 172

Sun also recently announced that there are now more than 250 million J2ME enabled mobile phones from 31 manufacturers deployed in over 75 carrier networks in the world today.

Note: Smartphones is used here in the generic sense of the word (high end, multiply capable cell phone devices) rather than any particular mobile phone maker’s OS (don’t you wish that particular vendor hadn’t decided to abscond with the generic term to refer to their own proprietary OS?). Also, for more from 3GSM, see also my related blog entry on Intel’s and Nokia’s 3GSM news.