(keitai-l) Re: Is the new(?) AU Open Appli Player that great?

From: Paul Baron <paul_at_in-duce.net>
Date: 01/23/07
Message-ID: <eab43a330701221825w554dd946sf10379b33ba7b1ed@mail.gmail.com>
Thank Mike,

actually, a Scott let me know about this article:
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0701/19/news107.html
Has more details and concerns.
p

On 1/22/07, Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote:
> Paul Baron <paul@in-duce.net>, 2007-01-22 13:22 +0900:
> > ok, whatever... I am sure there have been ways to run Java apps in
> > Brew for some years in the dev circles.
> > ...but never for the lambda end-user, and never advertised the way AU
> > is doing it this time.
> >
> > So my question is What does it mean for us end-users. Do you think it
> > will allow all of us to suddenly run any Java app or will they need to
> > be authorized in any way etc...
>
> KDDI's EZfactory site has some limited technical details about it:
>
>   http://www.au.kddi.com/ezfactory/tec/spec/openappli.html (J only)
>
> Beyond that I don't know what other specific technical docs KDDI
> might have available for developers; but I do know that it's
> basically just a Brew port of the Aplix JBlend VM.
>
> Aplix put out a press release about it a few months ago:
>
>   http://www.aplix.co.jp/jp/release/2006/pr061010.html (J)
>   http://www.aplixcorp.com/en/release/2006/pr101006.html (E)
>
> Knowing that a good number of third-party developers are pretty
> frustrated with the Brew development process, I'd guess that
> having the option of developing Java apps for the Open-Appli
> Player (or repurposing existing Java apps they've already
> developed) is going to make a lot of them pretty happy.
>
> I'm sure there are some limitations. For one thing, I'd wonder
> about the performance of apps running on it -- given that they're
> running in a VM which is in turn running on top of Brew.
>
> Anyway, as far as other specific info about the Brew port of
> JBlend, it looks like it's been available for a year or more:
>
>   http://www.aplixcorp.com/en/release/2005/pr110105.html
>
> And there are a few more more details about it here:
>
>   http://www.aplixcorp.com/en/products/jb_micro/overview.html
>
> And you can find a few articles by doing a search for
> オープンアプリ on the ケータイWatch site:
>
>   http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/
>
> Or at the ITmedia site:
>
>   http://www.itmedia.co.jp/
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>   --Mike
>
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Received on Tue Jan 23 04:25:27 2007