Thursday, March 26, 2009

Devices Profile

I originally wrote this entry on August 26, 2004, and published it on blogs.sun.com.


Quite a number of my friends working for mobile device vendors (or with Sun partners who are mobile device vendors) have approached and asked me what I thought about Microsoft's Devices Profile for Web Services.


My immedate reaction is that I'm not sure if the approach connects to a good idea.


Why invest such amount of effort at the Web Services protocol level when many high-market-share device vendors believe their devices will soon be able to handle the whole WS protocol stack? Second, I point people to JSR 172, where Java APIs such as JAX-RPC and JAX-P have been "profiled" for use within J2ME environment.

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