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22th December 2006 Sun Microsystems released the source code of J2ME. The code was released under GPL license and so it's freely modifiable. The project'sname was changed into phoneME. The phoneME project's goal is to further expand the usage of Java technology in the mobile handset market. The project scope includes a focus on the mainstream feature phone segment with phoneME Feature software, and the emerging advanced phone segment with phoneME Advanced software. The goal in making these technologies available to the Mobile & Embedded Community is to reduce implementation variation, increase the rate of innovation and enable new devices to leverage the power of the Java ME platform. About 80% of mobile phones in the world today are feature phones. Devices of this type typically include a high-resolution screen, multiple forms of messaging (SMS, MMS, IM, Email), basic 2D and 3D gaming, a camera, music player, Internet browser, etc. Powering all this functionality is a core set of Java ME technologies known as CLDC (the Java VM) and MIDP(the mobile information device profile). CLDC and MIDP are the most widely adopted Java ME application platforms used in mobile phones today. Layered on this base is a set of additional Java ME technologies often called “optional packages” that come in the form of JSRs (Java Specification Requests).
Providing enhanced compatibility to and from implementations of the Java Platform, the CDC architecture is highly portable and reduces the integration effort associated with a variety of application environments and middle ware components.phoneMe becomes open source project and developers are invited to improve the core functionality and classes of j2me so that it can remain in all phones.
This article shown developers the source where they can contribute to this project and help developers and manufacturers remain with j2me technology for making innovative applications for feature high end and past low end phones. very Distinct and Hard to find details are given in this article that most of the j2me developers are not knowing still.
--kalki 19:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)