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I have a few J2ME apps under my belt as well. The most infuriating thing was extreme fragmentation when it came to support of various APIs in devices, even dev

I have a few J2ME apps under my belt as well. The most infuriating thing was extreme fragmentation when it came to support of various APIs in devices, even devices from the same vendor. Nokia was prominently culpable of this. The Finnish giant vomited out an enormous stream of S40 and S60 phones whose support for APIs was all over the map, which meant producing a shitload of JARs depending of what you needed, and the code was cluttered with constant checks of what is supported and what not. What an irony given Java's official motto of "Write once, run anywhere". Just freaking no. Being a developer for Nokia was its own kind of hell. They never understood what API standardization is for and didn't care about your time and effort. Hey, here are 12 different devices for this year with different hardware, screen size and other equipment, and you'd better get your hands on all of them to make sure that your app really works and looks acceptably, because an emulator only gets you half way. Also, any firmware update from us can kick your house of cards apart, and there will be like three of them coming in the next year. Happy programming!

throwaway04324 2y ago
> whose support for APIs was all over the map, which meant producing a shitload of JARs depending of what you needed I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually one of the reasons why Sun fought MS and Google when they tried to make their own "Java" versions (embrace+extend). They didn't want a repeat of the J2ME situation.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Sun lawsuit against Microsoft predated J2ME, and was related to language changes.
ralferoo 2y ago
> Java's official motto of "Write once, run anywhere" The unofficial motto was "Write once, debug everywhere"
toast0 2y ago
> Hey, here are 12 different devices for this year with different hardware, screen size and other equipment Also, they don't have wifi, and they only do GSM 900/1800, have fun testing in the US.

throwaway04324 2y ago

> whose support for APIs was all over the map, which meant producing a shitload of JARs depending of what you needed I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually one of the reasons why Sun fought MS and Google when they tried to make their own "Java" versions (embrace+extend). They didn't want a repeat of the J2ME situation.

pjmlp 2y ago
Sun lawsuit against Microsoft predated J2ME, and was related to language changes.

ralferoo 2y ago

> Java's official motto of "Write once, run anywhere" The unofficial motto was "Write once, debug everywhere"

toast0 2y ago

> Hey, here are 12 different devices for this year with different hardware, screen size and other equipment Also, they don't have wifi, and they only do GSM 900/1800, have fun testing in the US.