J2ME and Mobile Application Development – An Overview

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J2ME application development basically means providing a consumer wireless device platform. It is a JAVA based Mobile Application Development platform which facilitates the developers in accessing an object oriented programming language. Items like palmtops, pagers and cell phones do suffer from the bottleneck of small screen sizes, limited memory, slow processors and alternative input methods. Sun Microsystems was the first to recognize the ‘limited memory” limitation and eventually it developed Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME).

Most of the developers who prefer J2ME application development swear by the advantages it offers. Some of these advantages include, great user interface, has a robust security in place, the mammoth built-in network protocols and finally, its ability to extend support for offline and networked applications that can be downloaded with much ease. The presence of widespread support to cater to the needs in various platforms today makes J2ME development as one of the most sought-after development tool. When you have a J2ME application development, you are rest assured to expect few benefits like, easy application navigational functionality, easy user interface, improved security measures and better networking capabilities.

It is considered to be an open source and independent platform. So, you do not have to be apprehensive of hefty annual license fees. Good news for developers as well, because allows them to create reusable codes and create modular programs. Since the application is Java based, it is thought to be platform independent. In other words, it gives you the freedom to run it on any platform. It is also widely seen, Java based business applications have always performed well. For, stable Java standards make it easier for developers to create their own multilevel applications that imbibe a component based approach.

Use of BlackBerry wireless mobile phone has made life easier especially in fast internet browsing, e-mailing and multimedia needs. Its staggering user base of more than 28 million gave birth to the phenomenon of Blackberry application development. It is the fascination to touch screen mobile phones that has seen such an upward swing into the use of Blackberry. Naturally, next few years will definitely see a surge in third party application development.

This article is written by a technical writer, working at SynapseIndia, a Blackberry application development company offering quality software product development services to worldwide clients.

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