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

Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:

>David asks:
>
>>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?
>>    
>>
>
>Per a prior email of mine, Avalon would be VERY useful for embedded 
>controller devices (such as manufacturing process control)...in fact, there is a 
>sourceforge project that is spinning up to do just that.  It's aims are to make 
>embedded programming and integration with enterprise systems (eg. J2EE) 
>easier.  Think of small footprint servers....
>  
>

Is this project http://ichilli.sourceforge.net/ ?

Jumping in this discussion lately, I can only push what you're saying : 
although putting a server in a phone may not really make sense, there's 
a real need for embedded servers in a lot of non-mobile devices, and I 
speak from personal experience in the process automation domain.

Sylvain

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