Berco Beute
Posts: 72
Nickname: berco
Registered: Jan, 2002
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Re: JSR for Review: Micro WSCI Framework for J2ME
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Posted: Apr 18, 2003 1:41 AM
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I think it's a good thing that all the API's needed for a J2ME client to cooperate with webservices are bundled in one API. I wonder which XML parser they will use since textparsing was too heavy a job for the old mobile phones. Only with the latest mobile phones XML parsing becomes viable.
It would have been even better if this initiative was an integral part of the new MIDP2.0 API, and not an optional API. That would have secured that all phones were native webservice consumers, now it requires the installation of an optional API, which the vast majority of users will never do.
PS: I a recent mobile phone test I conducted most users didn't even know what the menu entry 'java' stood for. Well, yeah, why should they? NTT DoCoMo uses the name i-Appli for their java applications, maybe SUN should be more proactive in branding 'java' as the name for cool applications on the mobile phone.
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