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In a move that sure will offer high profits in the continuously increasing Mobile industry, two colossuses in their business, Nokia and Vodafone announced in a public reception, the initiative for a future architecture of mobile services worldwide, regarding Java standards. The fundamental objective from this collaboration is the creation of, as much as possible, more simplified models of Java technology. This is an effort from both companies in order to set the fundamental standards for both mobile manufacturers and network providers.
Naturally the particular initiative of both companies is to follow the standards that have been placed for quite some time from the Java community (Java Community ProcessSM), while hardly in the beginning of August the Executive Committee ofJ2ME of Technology, approved the first Java Specification Requests for the particular initiative. The particular models with code 248 and 249 are not expected to present new API (Application Program Interface), but they will include solutions and improvements in the already existing Java models, in order to allow finally, complete (future) compatibility between all the companies and providers, that use the Java technology so much in appliances, as much as in their provided services.
Big manufacturers and providers such as Orange, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sun Microsystems and T-mobile International, showed positive comments for the particular initiative of the two companies and shortly, all of them or most of them will collaborate with Nokia and Vodafone as well, in the creation of a team of specialisation with technicians from each company, that will deal with this project. Using therefore new Java characterisics that the two companies will place, the programmers of young people of Java applications might create programs with high portability from a mobile platform to another, without big changes to be required in their code, adding simultaneous new pioneering characteristics, that do not exist in current Java applets.
As it is expected such an important initiative cannot be developed without control. For that reason the progress of the project of Nokia and Vodafone, will be checked continuously by leading organisms as the OSGi Alliance, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in order to provide also the precise requirements of the market from a new Java platform, in such way of course, that it does not create problems of compatibility with previous MIDP editions.
Pertti Korhonen, general director in the sector of technology of Nokia, reports that: "The particular initiative will strengthen considerably the leading place of Java technology in the mobile industry, in a period where a complete force of the third generation of telecommunications (3G) is present. It will offer to the companies, providers and programmers, incredible possibilities for the creation of more impressive Java applications, especially in Smartphones of all kinds". In the same frame the statements of Alan Harper, director of Strategy and Planning of Vodafone, were moved also: "The Mobile industry today finally,after a lot of thinking and anticipation realise the need for the creation of a complete new Java model. Our initiative will place new models for the future use of Java technology in mobile and mobile services, with astonishing results for all..."
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Posted: 2004-08-27 12:38
