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To: Urlman who wrote (7401)	5/30/2000 9:16:00 PM
From: FastC6	Respond to of 8581

My vision for PTSC is coming to fruition....here is some proof: cnnfn.com More to come soon...... . .

To: Urlman who wrote (7401)	6/5/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

Despite obstacles, Java aims for mobile devices By Carmen Nobel, eWEEK June 4, 2000 9:00 PM PT URL: zdnet.com Sun Microsystems Inc. wants to make Java the development platform of choice for cell phones and PDAs. But before that can happen, developers say, the mobile version of the technology needs to overcome some hurdles. At the JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco, a handful of vendors will show off Java-based technologies for mobile devices. Motorola Inc., of Schaumburg, Ill., for example, will demonstrate a Timeport phone that runs applications written on J2ME (Java2 Micro Edition), the current version of mobile Java. Lucent Technologies Inc., of Murray Hill, N.J., will launch a spinoff company called savaJe (pronounced "savage") that will offer an operating system called Jscream, which optimizes Java applications for Internet appliances. Despite the support, Java has further to go before it's ready for personal digital assistants, according to developers who use the technology for server-side code. "Write once, run anywhere on embedded devices is still very much a future thought," said Rod Smith, vice president of Java software at IBM, in Somers, N.Y. Developers report that current versions of J2ME have trouble performing consistently over different platforms. "The real issue is that it's more difficult than getting Java to run on Unix and [Windows] NT," said Nathaniel Freitas, chief technology officer at Thin AirApps LLC, a New York-based developer of e-mail software for wireless devices. "It's not just the operating system. It's how many buttons does it have, how big is the screen, etc." Sun promises to fix many of the problems by year's end. A mobile information device profile for Java is in review by the Java community, a group of several companies that support the technology. If the profile passes muster, Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., will develop a test suite for it, and devices embedded with Java code should be widely available by year's end. Cell phones, especially, are the future of Java, according to Sun officials. The company said the technology can vastly improve wireless Web browsers, most of which are written in WML (Wireless Markup Language), which adheres to WAP (Wireless Application Protocol). WAP is the industry buzzword for anything relating to cell phone Internet access, but Sun engineers insist Java can do better. "WML browsers ... support character-based applications and, for example, black-and-white traffic images," said Nicolas Lorain, senior product manager for wireless consumer technologies at Sun. "In Java, you could have a map of the area with animated icons." Lorain said Java will be the development platform of choice in a few years when TCP/IP connections over wideband wireless networks enable Java applications to perform well. He added that the platform security makes Java ideal for developing mobile e-commerce applications. ï Additional reporting by Roberta Holland