Mobility Developer Newsletter: October 27, 2004

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Product and Technology Releases

JSR 242 Digital Set Top Box Profile - "On Ramp to OCAP" 0.1 Early Draft Review
Defines a J2ME profile based on the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) that is appropriate for use by small-footprint cable television set top boxes.

JSR 229 Payment API 0.8.8 Public Review Draft
Enabling application developers to initiate mobile payment transactions in J2ME applications.

JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements draft10 Proposed Final Draft
Defines an optional package for advanced multimedia functionality which is targeted to run as an supplement in connection with MMAPI (JSR 135) in J2ME/CLDC environment.

Viewpoint

The Things I Wish I Learned in Engineering School:
A Conversation with Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer Rick Cattell. Sun Microsystems' Rick Cattell discusses why innovative software often never sees the light of day and how to remedy this problem.

October 27, 2004

Learn more about and get "hands-on" training for J2ME technologies through the following resources:

Technical Articles

Getting Started With Bluetooth JSR 82
Read the tech tip and begin experimenting with Bluetooth today using the Wireless Toolkit 2.2 Beta.
Writing a Custom Counter Component MIDP 2.0
Developers can now create custom UI components by extending the CustomItem class. This tech tip designs and implements a UI component for displaying a numeric counter and of course, source code is available.
Getting Started With Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles and JSR 188
This article presents Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles for designing content once. JSR 188 allows users to access the same application or content from any device, and be confident that it will work on that device, and will accommodate their preferences.

Events

Missed the chat on "Creating Mobile Applications to Communicate with Web Services?" Don't worry, you can still read the transcript.
Find out what your fellow developers asked our product engineers about building MIDlets that access web services through JSR 172, and read the informative answers they got by participating in last month's live chat with the technical experts.

JavaPolis 2004
December 13 - 17, 2004, MetroPolis Antwerp, Belgium
The third edition of JavaPolis, Europe’s biggest Java conference, welcomes only the best! The best international speakers on Java and J2EE. The most inspiring cases and realizations. And of course: the market leaders in Java and J2EE, to give you an overview of their latest products and services.
For the agenda and more program information please go to: http://developers.sun.com/sw/community/usergroups/portal_ug.html
Register now at http://developers.sun.com/sw/usergroups/signup.jsp

European Application Development and Deployment User Group Meeting
November 9, 2004, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Sun Microsystems, CBC office, Regis House, Ground Floor, 45 King William Street, London, United Kingdom. Come to the Application Development and Deployment (ADD) meeting to learn 'Best Practices' from fellow developers in other companies, hear the latest Roadmap and give input to directly to the Product Team for future product enhancements.
For the agenda and more program information please go to: http://developers.sun.com/usergroups
Meeting sign up: http://developers.sun.com/sw/usergroups/signup.jsp

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