PalmSource Updates Java Engines for T5 & Treo 650

Posted By: Ryan Tuesday, February 1, 2005 9:09:35 AM

PalmSource today announced the availability of Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet, a WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) certified runtime environment, for the Treo 650 smartphone and Tungsten T5 handheld from palmOne. IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) certified runtime environment provides the technology needed to enable standards-based mobile Java applications to run on Palm Powered smart mobile devices.

WEME is currently available for the Treo 600 smartphone, the Tungsten family of products, as well as the Zire 72 handheld from palmOne, and the addition of the Treo 650 smartphone and the Tungsten T5 extends that compatibility to palmOne's latest products. Palm Powered mobile devices from palmOne are award-winning products delivering a powerful combination of form, function and style, while maintaining the Palm OS hallmarks of ease-of-use and flexibility. With keyboard and stylus data input, high-resolution displays, and an intuitive user interface, the Treo and Tungsten lines of mobile products offer enterprises and consumers compelling solutions to easily and conveniently manage professional and personal information while on-the-go.

Java and the Palm Powered Economy
Today's announcement underscores the importance of embedded Java in the mobile device arena and echoes the growing enthusiasm and support within the Palm Powered economy. Providing open-standards-based software development environments such as WEME will help forge new market opportunities for the more than 390,000 registered Palm OS developers; increase demand for Palm Powered smart mobile devices; while broadening the reach of the industry-leading Palm OS platform into the burgeoning Java mobile market. In addition, Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet enables Palm Powered smart mobile devices to leverage mobile operator networks worldwide that have standardized their mobile services offerings on Java technology.

"IBM is committed to working with leading mobile operating system providers to extend computing to a wide range of mobile products and services," said Bruce Morse, Vice President, Business Development, Pervasive Computing at IBM. "Our continued collaboration with PalmSource reinforces our commitment to deliver state-of-the-art Java technology to developers so they can bring their various business applications to an increasingly mobile workforce. PalmSource is leveraging the IBM leadership role in providing middleware to help enable the connection of palmOne's Treo devices to content, information, data, transactions and applications. For developers, the programming model and award winning tools provide a familiar environment to build, test and deploy business applications to the Treo 650."

"Now, the more than 3 million members of the Java development community will be able to develop and deploy business applications for mobile workforces for the recently introduced Tungsten T5 and Treo 650," said Anthony Armenta, director of Software Product Marketing, palmOne. "Together with IBM and PalmSource, palmOne will offer customers another means to leverage their platform investment with an open-standards-based and cost-effective development environment for mobile computing."

WEME Java Runtime Availability
IBM WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment is part of IBM's Workplace Client Technology Micro Edition, server-managed device middleware, designed to connect enterprise data to mobile devices for sales force automation and mobile employee productivity. IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment V5.7 can be downloaded from palmOne's Web site. The Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet toolkit is now available to registered software developers and can be downloaded from PalmSource's Web site.

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where?

xpan @ 2/1/2005 2:15:34 PM #

I am trying to download the jvm but I can't.

In the list of supported units the T5 is absent and when I choose "other unit" it says that my unit does not support Web Sphere...

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RE: where?

palmdoc88 @ 2/1/2005 6:25:12 PM #

Yup, couldn't find it either on the webpage..... :(

T3 & T5 user

RE: where?

bcombee @ 2/1/2005 7:52:04 PM #

Go to https://www.developerpavilion.com/palmos/page.asp?page_id=365&tool_id=104 and use your Palm OS developer login to get both the simulator build and the device-specific build for current palmOne devices.

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What's the point?

Wolfgard @ 2/1/2005 2:39:23 PM #

Nobody writes Java programs for PalmOS, so why install the virtual machine?

pen & paper -> m515 -> Zire72 -> TH55 & Handera 330

RE: What's the point?

Strider_mt2k @ 2/1/2005 2:57:27 PM #

What about online content?
Are we talking the same Java here?

RE: What's the point?

Wolfgard @ 2/1/2005 2:59:06 PM #

No, not java as in java applets/servlets. I mean java applications like those used in Symbian devices (J2ME applications).

pen & paper -> m515 -> Zire72 -> TH55 & Handera 330

RE: What's the point?

hotpaw4 @ 2/1/2005 2:59:35 PM #

Java and JVM's may not be as popular for end-user apps, but many corporate in-house and vertical/enterprise developers like to develop and port their apps this way.

RE: What's the point?

RhinoSteve @ 2/1/2005 3:12:00 PM #

Java doesn't have much of a retail future in my opinion. However, IT guys will love this for their applets to be ported in only a week.

RE: What's the point?

Wolfgard @ 2/1/2005 3:21:12 PM #

@RhinoSteve - Java doesn't have much of a retail future in my opinion

That's not true. Java is very popular especially in enterprise softwares and internet programming. Plus, it's highly portable thanks to JVM and is a much more elegant object oriented languange compared to Microsoft's .NET languages. The only reason why most people don't see java programs is because they usually run on Linux/Unix systems or are used in big corporations. Hopefully with PalmOS Linux coming, Java will make big strides in the handheld arena (just like it did in smartphones/Symbian).

pen & paper -> m515 -> Zire72 -> TH55 & Handera 330

RE: What's the point?

tekhnogod @ 2/2/2005 10:47:03 AM #

I bought some Texas Hold'em software 3 weeks ago. Much to my disappointment I needed that Java software that we are talking about which wasn't available and still isn't available. I'm not that addicted to gambling but I want to use something I paid for. sigh.

No T3?

sremick @ 2/1/2005 3:20:02 PM #

And this isn't available for the T3 because....?

What? Those extra 16MHz make THAT much difference?

I actually had Java working on my T3. I used the developer utilities to convert a bunch of utilities and games over.

Unfortunately, most the cool Java stuff is developed for specific model phones. Which makes you wonder why they write in Java at all, if it can't be ported to anything else other than a Nokia model 123 or whatever.

Still, I don't get what makes the T5 able to use this and the T3 unable. In many regards, the T3 is faster than the T5 due to the different memory.

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RE: No T3?

Wolfgard @ 2/1/2005 3:27:26 PM #

On contrary to what most people believe, Java is not 100% 'write-once,run-anywhere'. Only basic codes work that way (and is interpreted by different virtual machines). Once developers dig into complex APIs and stuffs, it's not longer portable just by recompilation. However, a well designed Java program should be easily ported if the engineers adhere to strict software design rules.

pen & paper -> m515 -> Zire72 -> TH55 & Handera 330

RE: No T3?

cervezas @ 2/1/2005 7:04:06 PM #

It's got nothing to do with the processor, you can be sure of that. I run Java apps very nicely in old 16MHz Handspring Visors.

Perhaps palmOne would rather be selling T5s and Treo 650s to the businesses for which Java support is an important feature. Some say the T3 is on its way out, right?

David

Mobile Java is becoming much more important

cervezas @ 2/1/2005 6:48:37 PM #

What needs to be appreciated is that it's a lot easier to sell businesses on custom mobile software written in Java than the Palm OS C API. Java applications are faster to develop and easier to maintain. For most business applications the hit in performance is not important.

Personally, I think PalmSource would do well to get behind SuperWaba and put that VM in ROM. It's smaller, faster, and has a richer graphical user interface than J2ME MIDP. With SuperWaba 5.0 (just released) applications *can* be written once and deployed on Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian smart phones. You can even run them with full functionality in a web page because the code will execute in a regular JVM. Great for demos!

RE: Mobile Java is becoming much more important

pmjoe @ 2/3/2005 12:32:10 PM #

Palm just needed to get off their butts and support J2ME CDC Personal Profile. It's available on the other major PDA platforms. It was designed for PDAs and similar devices.

I'm becoming conviced that Palm has relegated themselves to the smartphone world with this MIDP only plan. I love Java, but I want to write MIDlets for the Palm like I want a hole in the head.

YAWN, I need to save these Java-Palm posts somewhere. It's not like people haven't been repeating this same thing for 2+ years.

Still not available....

vesther @ 2/3/2005 6:48:41 PM #

Dunno why...but I don't see the link for the Version 5.7 for current Athena Handhelds (palmOne Tungsten T5 and Treo 650) on the palmOne JVM Download Page. I think palmOne needs to do some final bug-fixing IMO.

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Multi media

parnit @ 2/11/2005 4:53:50 AM #

How one can watch 3GPvideo clip on Palm T5, which video player is suitable to play this clip?

The link is now working and available for download

vesther @ 2/13/2005 4:47:58 PM #

Downloaded that Java Engine onto my Tungsten T5--I currently have no problems running the WebSphere Everywhere program on my Tungsten T5.

Here are the supported devices:

* Zire 72 (Free)
* Tungsten T5 (Free)
* Treo 650 (Free)
* Treo 600 (Must pay to use it)
* Tungsten C (Must pay to use it)
* Tungsten T3 (Must pay to use it)
* Tungsten E (Must pay to use it)

The Tungsten T, Tungsten T2, Tungsten W, Zire 21, Zire 31, and Zire 72 handhelds are left in the dark. Why?! Java is extremely important for a palmOne handheld IMO. I don't see why palmOne has to put handheld users of the following handhelds in the dark...

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