Telecom Outlook 2003

December 14, 2002
Wireless industry, Sun deliver MIDP 2.0

HONGKONG -- Sun Microsystems has announced the completion of mobile information device profile (MIDP 2.0) standard. It also announced the availability of the final MIDP 2.0 specification, reference implementation, compatibility test suite, and beta version of the J2ME wireless toolkit 2.0. Over 50 wireless industry leaders contributed in developing the device in order to extend the base collection of Java technologies for mobile devices. The product supports new and enhanced gaming, graphics, video, audio, security, and many other features for mobile devices.

MIDP 2.0 provides greater extensibility and a more flexible layout for increased application portability across a wide range of devices with different screen sizes. It allows developers to leverage the full audio capabilities of each device, adding audio such as tones, tone sequences and WAV files to MIDP applications using a standard platform. It adds a game API that provides a standard foundation for building rich games and provides greater control over graphics and performance. It also adds support for leading connectivity standards beyond HTTP, such as HTTPS datagram, sockets, server sockets, and serial port communication. MIDP 2.0 adds a robust end-to-end security model, built on open standards, that protects the network, applications and mobile device.

Contact:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tel: 1-408-276-6039
Email: russ.castronovo@sun.com
Web: www.sun.com