Java ME HP iPAQ 900 series: Sun & HP Partner
Sun ’s Engineering Services group will be delivering to HP a compiled version of Java ME for wireless handsets for the iPAQ. Sun will work with HP to implement specific feature set. Normally Java ME licensees like HP start with the code and are responsible for integration and producing a binary product for their platform.
“What it amounts to is vendors like HP want the Java virtual machine on their platform, but the question is where is their expertise on the phone best spent?” said David Hopert, group marketing manager for Java mobile technology at Sun.
David added, “What they have done is handed over to us the duties of optimizing so they spend a lot less time of making Java run well. We in turn can minimize the amount of bugs and fragmentation that get into the phone.”