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

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:57, David W. 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?

It would be genuinely useful and I don't think it would freeze progress for 
the simple reason that a AvalonME version would be completely separate from 
main tree. Mainly because of completely different architecture required to 
accomodate the limited resources. 

That said I can't see any of the current committers stepping up to do it 
properly as none of them know it well enough and no-one does it in their day 
job. However - hopefully Andrzej will be able to provide an embedded 
container which we can point at.

> 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.

FWIW I run several different clientside apps via Avalon containers ;)

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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