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Sun unveils JavaFX to tap cellphone market
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 12 February 2009, 22:02 IST
Helsinki: Assessing the growing demand for JavaFX in the booming wireless software market, U.S. based Sun Microsystems has begun to ship the software for mobile phones. Since the entrance of Google and Apple, the focus of the cell phone market has been shifting to software development.
Cellphone makers like LG Electronics, Sony Ericsson are increasingly vying to deliver JavaFX enabled phone. The new JavaFX system from Sun is an outcome of the criticisms that it has faced regarding its original software platform 'Java' which shunned most of the advanced applications. "JavaFX is a layer on top of Java, designed to make Java much more powerful and also more approachable. It was time to take it up a level," Eric Klein, Vice President for marketing of Java, told Reuters.
Through the new software, Sun tries to be in direct competition with leading operating systems like Nokia Symbian as it is aimed to serve mid-range and high-end phones, thereby striking out the option for usage in low range cellphones. "In a time of increasing number of operating systems what developers need is a consistent platform which runs across all operating systems," Klein said.