The two companies are making a major push to attract developers to the fledgling platform.

Microsoft offers resources for transforming Qt apps for Windows Phone 7.

The Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile Client aims to ease the creation of apps for industrial devices.

Find out how to take your basic web development skills and build a mobile J2ME application.

Find out how the new platform security features affect Python for S60, what your development options will be, and how to perform native extending.

Read this beginner's guide to extending an enterprise application to mobile devices with the Java ME technologies.

With the fragmented mobile development landscape forcing developers to make a number of crucial choices, get a high-level comparison of the different platforms and recommendations for what purposes they fit.

A fifth of the world's population will soon have a mobile device and access to the Internet. With that many potential users, is an explosion of mobile applications inevitable? If so, what technologies will lead the way in their development?

Service orientation is going wireless; it's simply a matter of how much and how soon. XML-RPC and the kXML-RPC library certainly are in the mix for this inevitable convergence.

Not sure how to bring the Web 2.0 experience to smartphones? S60 smartphones now support SIP technology, which enables community-based services and convergence.

With a free (albeit poorly integrated) tool chain from Nokia and more capable IDEs from the likes of Borland and Metrowerks, and various initiative announcements over the last twenty-four months, choosing a tool chain for the new developer has been a Byzantine affair. With the announcement of Carbide.j and Carbide.c++, Nokia has just made the decision-making process much easier.

Got porting nightmares? If you're considering automating the porting your J2ME applications, you may want to think about using a preprocessor. Find out why it's the only technique open-ended enough to handle porting to multiple device models.

Just because Java Micro Edition lacks reflective capabilities doesn't mean Java Micro Edition developers miss out on the advantages of JUnit styled testing. JUnit-styled frameworks and tools can still improve ME application quality.

In this article you'll see how to make the three technologies work together by developing a simple and useful application that lets you update a multi-user blog and download the latest posts from it.

As devices grow more capable, so too must our development and emulation testing environments grow. Find out how this first of two anticipated beta releases of the newly renamed Wireless Toolkit from Sun addresses many J2ME developer needs as well as adding support for new APIs.

Building J2ME applications with a single code base that deploys to an ever-growing set of platforms is a tough and maybe impossible task. Find out how using Sun's NetBeans IDE with the NetBeans Mobility Pack can help.

This summer, the 1.0 release of a new plug-in, namely EclipseME, affords J2ME developers another free IDE option built on top of this very popular and powerful platform.

Are you working too hard to improve the footprint and performance of your J2ME application? Perhaps you have overlooked a readily available Java tool. Obfuscation may not only help you improve the size and performance of your application, it also gives you security over your intellectual property.

J2ME developers are accustomed to neglect, but the new NetBeans Mobility Pack 4.1 is among the best updates to the wireless development toolbox yet this decade.

Sun celebrates the 10th anniversary of Java with two more open source product contributions and a roadmap for the Java platform that drives down complexity and, Sun hopes, will grow the Java community to be 'the largest in the world.'