Mobile phones drive Java growth

Sun Microsystems says the popularity of mobile phones today is driving the rapid growth of Java application development in Asia, reports ZDNetIndia.

Sun's Matt Thompson says there is a high degree of mobile application development across Asia and with the greater part of handsets today carrying Java, it has become a front-end or back-end technology, or both.

At the recent Sun Tech Days developer conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thompson said that interest in Java mobile applications has been growing in Asia. He also said that telcos and mobile operators in Malaysia often rely on third-party Java developers to build Java components for their mobile applications.

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Sony Ericsson has released its first mobile phone to support Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), the next-generation Java umbrella standard (JSR-248), reports MobileAfrica.

The system is based in Sony Ericsson's Java Platform 8 (JP-8), and is intended to bring the Java community together in two ways.

Firstly, MSA defines a clear set of component Java Specification Requests (JSR's) that must be supported on next-generation mobile phones. Secondly, MSA clarifies the conditions for interaction between JSR's which gives less room for interpretation in implementation.

Yahoo on Wednesday is expected to release software that will allow third-party developers to write applications using Yahoo Mail, reports News.com.

The move to open up the application programming interfaces (APIs) to Yahoo Mail is meant to encourage Web developers to build applications that use the mail service. The APIs will be available either via a JavaScript-based method, or the Simple Object Access Protocol.

One new application that was built by an outside developer creates a connection between Yahoo Mail and Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.