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As i am doing some mobile phone web services work, or better, web service calls from a mobile phone. I was just thinking about using an upcoming standard for doing RPC calls via HTTP, called JSR-172. In my dreams i allready dropped my kSoap efforts and joined forces with Sun proclaimed standards.

So my first visit was the JCP site and unfortunately the status was still not final but "Final Approval Ballot". One click further i saw that nearly each ascociated company voted with "yes", leaving only Sony and Palm as not voted. This is no problem you would say, but all parties voted within October and the last 4 weeks passed away without any actions at all.

Another funny note on the JCP site of this JSR:
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2.11 Please describe the anticipated schedule for the development of this specification.
Community Review: Dec 2002
Final Release: Summer 2003
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Summer 2003, they nearly made the deadline ;-) This reminds me of our street-repair-processes in germany. They also tell the people that some "road work" will be finished on a date which will be never hit.

After that desillusioning experience, i was quite sure that no major phone vendor will roll out a phone with JSR-172 implementation in the short run. After checking out Nokia Website, my anticipation was approved. They allready rolled out a phone with MIDP 2.0, Wireless-Messaging API and lots of cool stuff, but nothing regarding JSR-172.

Lets return back to kSoap and go the add-on lib way.