Sun to support Mobile Service Architecture

SANTA CLARA: Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced full support for Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), the next generation Java platform for mobile phones, is available immediately across its mobile product line and the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Sun, along with 13 other companies, including operators, OEMs and software vendors, participated in the development of MSA through the Java Community Process.

The goal of MSA is to provide greater handset platform functionality to application developers and reduce implementation variation through the creation of standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and specific component clarifications.

"Java technology provides the ubiquitous platform that enables mobile applications to be created and deployed across multiple devices. Building on the more than 1.5 billion Java technology-enabled phones in the market today, MSA will move the mobile industry forward by exposing advanced capabilities for developers to create cool, new applications and services for the next-generation of mobile phones," said Laurie Tolson, vice president of Client Software Group at Sun.

He added "In addition, MSA helps to drive consistency in implementations of the specification, which will reduce industry fragmentation. Sun is pleased to support this new specification throughout our mobile product offerings."

Some of the sun products supported for MSA includes Sun Java wireless client,  NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 and Sun Java wireless toolkit 2.5 for connected limited device configuration (CLDC).

CIOL Bureau