Recent Posts by jacob Lehrbaum

With feature phones representing more than 80% of the global handset market, there's a huge opportunity for developers to distribute rich content and applications to these devices. The Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) enables your content to reach more end users than any other mobile applications platform. By attending this Webcast, you will learn how developing on Java ME gives you a competitive edge and helps you reach the broadest audience possible.In particular,...

It's been a good week for Java ME. Although much of the hype in so-called "developed markets" is focused on smartphone platforms, the majority of the world continues to use feature phones and the best way to bring applications to these devices is with Java ME. In India alone, feature phone users outnumber smartphone users by a factor of 18 to 1! Because of the vast number of Java ME enabled phones, app development for the platform represents a significant market opportunity...

Attention Boston area developers! Oracle has been running a series of free one-day Java Developer events in the US, Europe, and Asia since last November, and on March 3rd, this highly popular series is coming to the Westin Copley Place in Boston.The Java Developer Day will include four tracks of sessions and hands-on-labs designed for developers interested in Server, Desktop, Embedded, and core Java SE platform topics. Technologies covered include Java EE, Java ME and Java SE...

Interested in previewing the next generation release of the popular NetBeans IDE? If so, you'll want to check out the NetBeans 7.0 Beta 2, just released this past week.NetBeans 7.0 delivers a large range of features, but perhaps most exciting to developers will be inclusion of support for targeting JDK 7. In the first beta, NetBeans 7.0 added improved support for integrating your applications with Oracle Database and included a number of enhancements for working with...

VisionMobile is currently soliciting feedback for the second edition of their popular Mobile Developer Economics report. With the 2011 edition, VisionMobile is hoping to:"see how the dynamics of the developer world have changed since early 2010 and to provide more insights into app marketing, monetization and many other factors." If you have a couple of minutes, please check out the survey and provide your input. In addition please help us spread the word to make sure that...

If you didn't get a chance to watch the live broadcast of TechCast Live with Ajay Patel and Justin Kestelyn, you can now watch the on-demand replay below using our handy embedded video player. In this edition of TechCast Live, Justin and Ajay covered a wide range of important topics including: 1) The importance of the Java community 2) Future directions in the JCP 3) JavaOne 4) How Glassfish fits into Oracle's Application Server portfolio 5) JavaFX 2.0And much more. Oh, and...

Its been a busy week here in Barcelona, with noticeably more energy at the show than in 2010. This year, we decided to move the Java booth to the App Planet and really engage with the increasing number of developers that are attending the event. Our booth featured 10 demos and a series of nearly 25 workshops featuring a variety of topics ranging from information about Java Verified, to the use of web technologies with Java ME, to sessions hosted by Operators such as Orange...

On year ago, tomorrow, Oracle became the steward of Java through its acquisition of Sun. We invite you to join us tomorrow on the anniversary of this memorable event for a special TechCast Live conversation with Ajay Patel, VP of Product development for Application Grid Products and Justin Kestelyn of Oracle Technology Network. Topics that will be covered include: - Highlights, challenges and what we learned over the past year- The Future of Java and its importance to Oracle...

Are you attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week? If so, you might want to register for Oracle's free workshop series taking place in the App Planet. We will be hosting a series of 25 workshops in our booth covering a range of topics that include: Benefits of Deploying Phones with Oracle Java Wireless Client Oracle's Embedded Java solutions for Machine-to-Machine applications Building better User Interfaces with the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit Resources to...