Are Palm OS or Pocket PC viable markets for J2ME?

Hi,
On the current issue of JDJ, there is an article called "J2ME: Has it time finally arrived?" where the author talks about how J2ME is becoming more mature on the cellphone market. But then the author says:
Again, we're talking mobile phones here -- PDAs running Palm OS or Pocket PC just aren't a viable market for J2ME development as of yet, because they have alternative programming tools and languages and generally more open platforms.
Is this true? Judging from personal experience, plus threads in this forum like Open letter to SUN to produce a JRE for Pocket PC, there seems to be some truth to this claim.
I would like to hear other developer's opinions on this. Has your company abandoned Java development on Windows CE (or Pocket PC) and moved to .NET Compact Framework instead? Or is your company perfectly comfortable with using Java under those environments, except for a few hiccups? Why or why not?
Thanks,
Nicolas Rivera

Hi Nicolas,
Is this true? Judging from personal experience, plus
threads in this forum like Open letter to SUN to
produce a JRE for Pocket PC, there seems to be
some truth to this claim.Unfortunately there not exists a supported free JVM for Pocket PC 2003
devices, there exists some commercial implementations but I haven't found a truly RAD tool to develop java apps for this platform.
I've suffered with pain the old embedded Visual Basic and Visual C environments from Microsoft for mobile devices and I'm suffering the Compact Framework. They've created an acceptable tool like Visual Studio but it's not much better than alternatives with Java.
I can't believe Sun would have surrender to Microsoft in this apps market but I think they've done it.
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I would like to hear other developer's opinions on
this. Has your company abandoned Java development on
Windows CE (or Pocket PC) and moved to .NET Compact
Framework instead? Or is your company perfectly
comfortable with using Java under those environments,
except for a few hiccups? Why or why not?Our company began to work with MS because there was a great experience in MS desktop apps developing with Visual Basic and Visual C++.
I've heard of some companies developing Java apps in a PC environment and then deploy them in PocketPC by using only the right subset of classes.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Jose Luis
Hi,
On the current issue of JDJ, there is an article
called "J2ME: Has it time finally arrived?" where the
author talks about how J2ME is becoming more mature
on the cellphone market. But then the author says:
Again, we're talking mobile phones here -- PDAs
running Palm OS or Pocket PC just aren't a viable
market for J2ME development as of yet, because they
have alternative programming tools and languages and
generally more open platforms.
Is this true? Judging from personal experience, plus
threads in this forum like Open letter to SUN to
produce a JRE for Pocket PC, there seems to be
some truth to this claim.
I would like to hear other developer's opinions on
this. Has your company abandoned Java development on
Windows CE (or Pocket PC) and moved to .NET Compact
Framework instead? Or is your company perfectly
comfortable with using Java under those environments,
except for a few hiccups? Why or why not?
Thanks,
Nicolas Rivera

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