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JVM from IBM Now Available for Palm Tungsten Handhelds

JVM from IBM Now Available for Palm Tungsten Handhelds
By Java News Desk
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October 2, 2003 12:48 PM EDT
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(October 2, 2003) - In conjunction with this week's launch of the Palm Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E handhelds, Palm, Inc. has made IBM's WebSphere Micro Environment (WME) J2ME certified runtime environment available for Tungsten handheld users.

Last June, Palm Solutions Group licensed from IBM a JVM, WebSphere Micro Environment, for Palm Tungsten handhelds. Now, the more than 3 million members of the Java development community can write business applications for mobile workforces and consumer applications for gaming and information on the go, increasing Palm Solutions Group's development community tenfold. Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E handheld users, as well as Tungsten W, Tungsten C and Tungsten T2 handheld users, that purchase their handheld on Oct. 1, 2003, or after can download WebSphere Micro Environment for no cost. Existing users can purchase it for $5.99. Users interested in deploying Java applications can download the WebSphere Micro Environment. More information on Palm's Java strategy and activities developers is available at www.palm.com/java.

Palm Solutions Group also is making available WebSphere Micro Environment Toolkit for Palm OS Developers, a standalone developer toolkit for use with any J2ME-compatible development environment. IBM's WebSphere Studio Device Developer (WSDD) will now be optimized for creating Palm handheld-based Java applications. The Eclipse-based WSDD can integrate with the other WebSphere Studio tools to provide an end-to-end Java development solution. WebSphere Micro Environment's flexibility also provides access to enterprise-oriented components such as DB2 Everyplace and MQ Series Everyplace.

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Robert Enyedi 10/07/03 08:16:48 AM EDT

There is a MIDP 1.0 implementation for Palm directly from Sun that runs on PalmOS 3.5+.

See http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/articles/palm/.

You can use it at least for development. I have used it for developing a small game on my Palm m500 and it performed well.

I agree that MIDP 1.0 is quite limited so I don't really see what purpose IBM's WME could serve...
10/03/03 02:55:29 PM EDT

Are there no decent JVMs for PALM?

Is Palm forcing developers of serious apps to use PalmOS ?
10/03/03 02:42:22 PM EDT

It's unfortunate that the JVM does not allow developers to take advantage of the computation power of the new devices other than to produce the trivial apps that the MIDP 1.0 can support.
whocares 10/03/03 02:23:16 PM EDT

Buy a Tungsten only for simple apps and Games development. Usefull Business applications, much less enterprise mobile apps, give me a break. It's not even MIDP 2.0.
A sophisticated PDA without at least Personal Java is a complete let down to Java developers.
10/02/03 11:02:18 PM EDT

For three million developers to cater to how many customers? How many devices are there? Add to it that the MIDP spec is outdated a bit. Why not 2.0? This is nothing but marketing. (Yeah, let 3 mil developers buy one $500 gizmo each) Nice try.