Following Sun Microsystem bold decision to release Java Platforms uder GNU/GPL, phoneME is an open source effort to ensure Java ME technology is the first class citizen on Mobile Devices.

phoneME it self is a fully featured open source JVM that fully supports MIDP and CLDC as well as a number of optional package JSRs that incorporate a variety of key wireless industry standards and capabilities.

With this, anybody can freely port phoneME to any mobile devices to provide it with a fully working JavaME environment. This would bridge the gap between the ever fragmented JavaME implementation between mobile devices in the market.

One of the phoneME objectives is to allow as many people as possible to participate in expanding JavaME features and robustness across mobile devices platform.

The source code and (Windows and Linux) binaries of phoneME is available on phoneME project download page.

p/s : Hopefully, somebody will come up with a completely free Java ME implementation in Pocket PC and other PDA platforms. Because although JavaME is designed to run on these devices, I still have hard time to find a decent implementation on these platform, (IBM J9 excluded).

Tags: java, javame, j2me, open source, opensource