The J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) technology is still relatively new. Strong mobile development tools, especially IDEs, will greatly help J2ME’s adoption among wireless application developers. In this article, I review four J2ME IDE products:

  • Borland JBuilder 7 Enterprise with MobileSet 3
  • Sun Microsystems’ Sun ONE (Open Network Environment) Studio 4 Mobile Edition
  • Metrowerks CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7
  • S5 Systems’ jVise (based on IBM Eclipse technology)

Landscape of J2ME development tools

Different wireless devices have different limitations in terms of memory size, screen size, input methods, and computing speed. Also, vendors’ J2ME implementations might contain vendor-specific add-on APIs that leverage special underlying hardware/OS features.
(more…)