The recently released early access edition of the new Java ME SDK (version 3.0) unites Java ME developer tools for CLDC, CDC, Blu-ray Disc Java, and LWUIT into a single SDK. Find out how it works.
by Jim White
April 21, 2009
evice fragmentation is an issue that plagues the mobile application developer. With the thousands of devices on the market, it is difficult to know which devices can host a new application. Even when targeting only a few devices, it is difficult to determine the lowest common denominator of features and capabilities that the set of devices support. This makes building applications to that set very difficult. (For more information on understanding the various issues related to device fragmentation see Damith C. Rajapakse's Web page.)
While device fragmentation has always been—and may always be—a troublesome issue in Java Platform Micro Edition (ME) development, at least Java ME developers now can look forward to some defragmentation in SDKs. At the end of 2008, Sun released the early access edition of the Java ME SDK version 3.0. This kit brings together in one SDK the Java ME developer tools (runtime, emulator and code editors) for:
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evice fragmentation is an issue that plagues the mobile application developer. With the thousands of devices on the market, it is difficult to know which devices can host a new application. Even when targeting only a few devices, it is difficult to determine the lowest common denominator of features and capabilities that the set of devices support. This makes building applications to that set very difficult. (For more information on understanding the various issues related to device fragmentation see Damith C. Rajapakse's 
