JVM'01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on JavaTM Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium - Volume 1
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The goal of the work reported here was to explore the use of the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME™) platform for applications connected to the enterprise, specifically focusing on Palm-based wireless applications. We found that the Java™ platform on the Palm is still maturing. The Palm itself has been carefully engineered to support small native applications, with a distinctive graphical user interface tuned for its display. Work remains to be done on the Palm to support more complex wireless applications and to make Java-based applications competitive. We also found that wireless enterprise applications in general are somewhat problematic, due to issues of network reliability, availability, bandwidth, and provisioning. Significantly, programming languages and their platforms are not the gating factors to large scale wireless deployment. This work was performed in 2000 and 2001, before the current commercial deployment of Java-enabled mobile devices and faster wide-area wireless data services (such as GPRS). We hope to repeat our experiments using these technologies.