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How-to Checklist Addresses Most Common Challenges

“Why doesn’t my signed MIDlet work?” is a resource created by the organization Java Verified and is designed to help developers successfully address some of the most common signing issues associated with Java ME applications. The “how to” checklist allows developers to quickly identify and solve four of the most common issues that would cause Java ME applications to work before signing, but not afterwards.

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To Bring Mobile Features to Netbooks

A modular version of Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) could be on the horizon, at least that’s what Jeet Kaul, vice president of Sun’s client software group, told The Register. The goal is to make this version available sometime in 2010, allowing netbooks running Java to offer more of the kinds of features used in cell phones and bring functionality found on laptops to some smart phones.

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Short Items of Interest for the Java Community

• Java Card 3 in Classic and Connected Editions
• GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1
• Latest Release: Java 6 Update 17
• J2SE 5.0 Reaches End of Service Life
• List of Security Updates for Java SE
• Installing Java 6 Update 17 in Windows XP
• Early Access Build: Java SE 6 Update 18 b04
• GlassFish Communications Server 2.0 / SailFin 2.0
• Easily Deploy Web Apps with GlassFish Web Stack
• GlassFish Version 3 Slides, Demos, Screencasts
• Powerful Logging in Java ME
• MIDP 3.0 Features: Inter-MIDlet Communication and Events
• Create an Image Slideshow With JavaFX
• Java EE 5 Tools Bundle Update 7 Refreshed

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Collaborating on Application Store, Support of Mobile Developer Program

Sun is working closely with Verizon Wireless to help foster the recently launched Verizon Developer Community (VDC). Sun is providing key technologies and services to support VDC and help build the V CAST Apps storefront, scheduled to launch later this year. Developers who have created apps for platforms such as Java, BREW, Android, Windows Mobile and others are welcome to join the VDC and submit concepts and applications for V CAST Apps.

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JavaFX 1.2 APIs Make This Platform Even More Compelling

Bruce Hopkins contends that JavaFX Mobile definitely should be part of the plan for developers working on mobile applications. He explains why in a recent entry on Mobility Tech Tips and in an earlier written Sun Developer Network article “Three Reasons Why Your Next Java ME Mobile Application Should Include JavaFX Mobile.” The JavaFX 1.2 APIs are the latest ones available and Hopkins addresses how their new features make his point even more relevant.

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New Features Speed Development Tasks, Ease Application Deployment

Developers working on Java ME mobile projects need to give serious consideration to using JavaFX and JavaFX Mobile in their next applications, writes Bruce Hopkins in a recent Sun Developer Network (SDN) article. Hopkins describes JavaFX as a feature-rich platform that allows both developers and now designers to create rich and compelling user interfaces for mobile devices.

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