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One J2ME platform often forgotten about, or outright ignored by the J2ME community, is the old BlackBerry OS. They took a J2ME base, and added a ton of BB-speci
by octorian 12y ago
One J2ME platform often forgotten about, or outright ignored by the J2ME community, is the old BlackBerry OS. They took a J2ME base, and added a ton of BB-specific APIs on top of it to make the platform actually useful.
Early on, this led developers to having to make a choice... Code to pure (or mostly pure) J2ME and run everywhere, or fully embrace the BB-specific APIs. The former was attractive in theory, but the latter was a necessity to make your app actually look-and-feel correct and actually integrate with the platform.
As time dragged on, however, it felt like the BB SDK got all of its limitations from the J2ME base without actually deriving any benefits. Meanwhile, Android showed that you could actually do modern Java on a mobile device.