And all of them provide participants with access to free or inexpensive development tools for devices. Early Access version were handed out at the company's pavilion booth and at email stations around the conference. Tremendous opportunity abounds, especially in the wireless world. Now that the technologies are ready, developers are moving rapidly to build and deploy real solutions to Java-powered devices. I would strongly encourage anyone who is interested to learn more about J2ME and start developing now.
Today is a great time to be a device application or service developer.
About the author Bill Day is a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Demonstrations included the app that won Motorola's Java Jam contest. In addition to Motorola's Java Jam, many other companies took the JavaOne opportunity to launch contests related to J2ME and device programming that will run over the course of the coming weeks and months. Bull is organizing a free, affiliated SIM developer event in the French Riviera in late summer 2000. Java, Jini, Jiro, J2EE, JavaBeans, EJB, and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. or other countries, and are used under license.