Re: Why J2ME? (was Re: [A5:RT] Minimum J2ME Specs and Strategy)

David W. wrote:
> Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
[...]
> I'm not even sure the enterprise sector needs Avalon on a cellphone.  Is
> this just frivolity that's going to freeze Avalon progress or is J2ME
> support genuinely useful?
> 
> Although it's nice to imagine the power of Avalon on the client side, slow
> down for a second and read the Jakarta mission statement (but then, Avalon
> is moving out of Jakarta, if I understand correctly).  Apache is a place for
> developing *server-side* software.  Who runs a server on a cellphone?  If
> the framework is lightweight and flexible, let someone who needs it try to
> create a J2ME container at sourceforge or privately.

I'm thinking about the global embedded market, where it's important that 
automation processors for example are web-aware and in fact are small 
servers.

But yes, to reply to Stefano, we should not make this goal stop us too 
much from making Avalon5. I'm already a bit confused about the proposed 
changes to Avalon, I thought we were going to make a container, not 
reinvent the framework...

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