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

Marc and others have assumed:

> 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.

Be careful of making the cell phone/PDA assumption. I believe there is a more 
pressing and larger market opportunity in the embedded systems arena (eg. 
manufacturing process control, and the like).  The consumer device market is 
probably not as attractive a platform for Avalon 5 in this respect.

A slimmed down Avalon container/framework would be ideal for this market 
segment since lifecycle support, modularity and container support will be key 
to support such embedded controllers.

MIDP/CLDC (and CDC shortly) are supported by some embedded processors 
already.  But regardless of that, MIDP/CLDC provides a good example of the 
constraints that any embedded procesor will be faced with in implementing 
Avalon 5. Many parts of the MIDP spec are targeted at Cell/PDA devices....for 
example, the LCDUI rendering classes, which will NOT be required for an 
embedded container implementation.

I would not target Avalon 5 at MIDP/CLDC specifically....but just use those 
specs as a good "constraints baseline" for limited capability embedded 
environments.


Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com