Java on Google Android
According to the press release, Esmertec is providing Java ME VM on top of Android.
Thanks to the availability of our Jbed™ Java™ VM on the Android platform, we offer immediate compatibility to the standard Java ME world to enable Java ME-based mobile services with the Android platform.
It is disappointing that Sun is missing from the Open Handset Alliance member list, although its Java FX Mobile is running on top of Linux kernel. Motorola (as a founding member of Android) has its own Mobile Linux and Apache licensed MIDP implementation (2.1 and 3.0). I am not sure how Motorola and Google to cooperate the Linux code base, but those Java ME projects seem to be a nature fit.
Esmertec and Aplix are part of the Alliance, so both will provide some kind of Java VM; both have MIDP implementations. It is going to be interesting to see how all this evolve, and what VM vendor wins on what handsets. This of course doesn’t address the Java fragmentation problem.
ceo
Agree