Vikram Goyal's Blog

Nokia joins Eclipse for J2ME development

Nokia has decided to join the Eclipse project as a board member and a strategic developer, whatever that means.

Sorry, I know what it means. a) it gives Nokia veto power over Eclipse's J2ME environment and b) it allows Nokia to push its own developer tools for J2ME development.

I know that a large percentage of J2ME development is targeted for the Nokia devices. Ok so they do have the best J2ME toolkit and besides, they have the largest customer space. Nevertheless, something bothers me with this apparent monopoly that is going to happen on the Eclipse development environment. How will it work out in the end for developers using Eclipse for J2ME development and targeting multiple manufacturers? What happens to EclipseME? The press release is silent on these issues.

Comments

• I'm glad we had 1 negative Eclipse blog for the 10-ish positive blogs for Netbeans in the last 2 days. Like politicians running for office say, you can say anything you want about me, just get my name right. :)

  Posted by: phlogistic on September 30, 2005 at 09:22 AM

• I agree with your view, but I also get enthusiasm with this because, maybe Nokia could get started a new ride for advancing development platforms, specially in ME case, whose emulators are out of reality in my opnion... I don't believe that their competitors will be out of this business...

  Posted by: albinati on September 30, 2005 at 01:46 PM

• Hi phlogistic,

  This wasn't intended as a negative entry but rather just a question. :)

  Hi albinati,

  The state of the emulator is pretty bad and I hope that you are right in that this development may force better platforms.

  
  Vikram

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