Now this is what I am talking about! Yup, moves like this are almost sure to help to make mobile Java everything that a dev could ever hope for.

Were you a little surprised recently that Sun’s J2ME Wireless Toolkit picked up several awards as product of the year in the mobile development tools area? I was. Not that the Wireless Toolkit is a poor tool. But after several years of writing applications in our favorite text editors and then using the Wireless Toolkit to compile, test, debug, etc. our J2ME applications, many J2ME developers were hoping that our J2ME IDEs would catch up to those in the J2EE arena.

Admittedly, there have been improvements. Products and IDEs such as Borland’s Jbuilder/Mobile Studio, IBM’s WebSphere Studio Device Developer, and EclipseME, to name a few, continually provide J2ME developers with more application development power than they have had in years past. Even the Wireless Toolkit has been improved greatly over the years. But here we are in 2005, and most of us are using the same tools used in 2001—a text editor and the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. [Read the rest]