RE: [A5:RT] Minimum J2ME Specs and Strategy

Marc,

I expect that within a very few years the current target platforms for the
CLDC will be running the CDC instead.  Stinger-class cell phones, linux and
WinCE PDAs, etc., are already fully capable of supporting the CDC.  And it
is far easier for Sun to promote JINI on CDC devices.

In any event, it is still a decision to make, and the CDC is far more of a
viable platform for hosting an Avalon container as such are currently
understood.

	--- Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Schier [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 17:07
To: 'Avalon Developers List'
Subject: RE: [A5:RT] Minimum J2ME Specs and Strategy

CLDC is here to stay, especially on smart-devices and cell phones.  CLDC 2.0
will include floating point arithmetic and is scheduled to be released soon.
From my experience I agree that the http://java.sun.com/products/cdc/ (+
Personal Profile) is much better suited for a framework like Avalon. In such
an environment you can implement containers that are much more
sophisticated. However, most development is currently going on on CLDC +
MIDP capable cell phones and PDA devices and a framework for componentized
services could be a great product on these platforms.  Please take a look at
http://kxml.enhydra.org/ or MinML.  They could be useful parsers for the
configuration objects.  We could use Tweety as the J2ME container and add
kXML configuration and mandate that all J2ME compliant components must be
thread-safe and we will have our j2me compliant container today.  I think
thread-safety is tolerable in such a constraint environment. (just my 2c)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: 'Avalon Developers List'
> Subject: RE: [A5:RT] Minimum J2ME Specs and Strategy
>
> > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > Berin,
> >
> > Alternatively, the Avalon Community could take the view that
> > CLDC devices are going to go the way of the Dodo, and focus
> > on the CDC as the low-end configuration.  That would provide
> > a far more compatible environment, dealing primarily with
> > scale instead of incompatibilities.
>
> Where is the link for CDC?  I saw MIDP and CLDC.