SAN RAMON, Calif.-Industry leaders have formed the Mobile Expert Group with a view to promoting Java technology in the mobile space. The focus will be data-capable phones.
The group was formed by the OSGi Alliance, an ecosystem whose members specify, create, advance and promote an open service delivery and management platform and foster its wide industry adoption.
Members involved in the MEP include IBM Corp., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Oracle Corp., Panasonic Corp., ProSyst, Siemens VDO Automotive, Sun Microsystems and Telcordia Technologies, among others.
“As the power and capability of wireless devices increases, the opportunity for more advanced applications and software solutions also increases,” said John Barr, president of the OSGi Alliance and director, standards realization for Motorola. “To realize their full potential, wireless devices need a new level of open software infrastructure, supporting the ability to share and to re-use programmatic services between applications and to manage application lifecycles completely.”
The MEG will leverage the OSGi Service platform to define specifications that will cover downloadable games and enable end users to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously on the same device.
“For example, a consumer will be able to answer a phone call while playing a Java game without interrupting or ending the game action,” said the group.
The MEG also will work with other standards groups for Java in the areas of application development, provisioning and management.
