Java on S60 to receive a shake-up
Published by Steve Litchfield at 15:52 BST, October 22nd 2008
There's an interesting piece today by the people who put together the Java runtime on S60, talking about how they want to streamline Internet connections by Java applets to involve less user prompts[link updated]. The plan is to put the new system in place in new devices and also in new firmwares for existing devices. About time, too, methinks.
Categories: Software, Links of Interest
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition
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Sergey Zak
TomJ
Fewer user prompts...
Sorry, couldn't help it; wrestling with some ghastly font tag filled html earlier has really fired up my inner pedant, which is never that far from the surface in any case.
ares
The stuff s60 is introducing has new existed on UIQ3 since the beggining - the kind of java security prompt showed is typical in any SE phone by the way, not just UIQ...go figure. And this what SE is heading to now (ok, this is the bad part of it, there is also alot of advantages)
argh
Good to hear. I already set the "allow always" option in the Application Manager settings for midlets that I trust, but this is a far from obvious solution (I think that I only found out about it after reading it somewhere else on AAS).
Unregistered
Looks like they may be dabbling in to MIDP3 which should've gone gold by now, but someone figured Motorola would do a good job at hosting/mediating the information. their open wiki hasn't been updated since April this year!!
Unregistered
Menneisyys
Just a quick correction before anyone thinks it's become possible on S60 to run Java applets (except for the beta-stage SkyFire Web browser): it's MIDlets that all this is about, not traditional Java "applets".
(Java applets have nothing to do with MIDlets and the word 'applet' should never be used when referring to MIDlets.)
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