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First Look: Mobile Industry Collaborates to Advance Java Bernard Cole San Francisco, Ca. To fill a gap albeit only temporary created by the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems, creator of the Java language, mobile industry companies have initiated the Unified Test Initiative. Under the UTI, a new Java Verified program has been created as well as JATAF (Java Application Terminal Alignment Framework), a new open source project where members of the global Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) ecosystem are collaborating to streamline testing of applications across a wide range of mobile phones and handheld devices. These initiatives provide developers with enhanced testing features to make it easier and faster to deliver a variety of Java-based mobile devices and applications to businesses and consumers worldwide. The release opens the door to new revenue opportunities across the entire Java eco-system and demonstrates how the mobile industry is working together to address fragmentation issues. According to Martin Wrigley, chair of UTI, director of technology, Orange Partner Program, as a program managed by the UTI, the Java Verified program has met the industry needs for testing and signing for five years, supporting the design, usability and sales of high quality mobile Java applications. Enhancements that have been released, he said, provide developers with new tools for ensuring quality throughout the entire testing process and the ability to test applications across a greater number of devices at a significant cost savings compared to previous testing models. Highlights of the new Java Verified program capabilities include Publisher ID, R&D Signing, and Streamlined Test Procedures. Publisher ID is tamper-proof digital certificate that identifies the origin of the application and authenticates the identity of the person or company providing it. This identifier builds accountability, trust and quality assurance across the submission, signing and verification process. R&D Signing allows developers to test their applications and insure that they will behave properly and as expected on a live device during the development process. This can allow for faster implementations because developers can correct functionality issues prior to ending the testing process. The new UTC v 3.0 testing criteria has been streamlined so that developers can continue to test applications, against a wide variety of devices, but in a more cost effective manner. Developers will find these new options valuable because repeat testing on multiple devices is now handled via one full test per platform, and reduced testing on the other devices in the platform. This makes the testing process faster, easier and less expensive. UTI has launched a new Java Verified program website with new content, features and resources at www.javaverified.com which also links to a new Java Verified program testing submission portal that has been redesigned for greater usability. JATAF is a new collaborative project involving companies and developers working to maintain Java as a truly ubiquitous platform for application deployment and committed to addressing fragmentation. Founding members are France Telecom/Orange, Sony Ericsson, Sun Microsystems, and Vodafone, with each making open source contributions to the project. The goal of JATAF is to provide a more consistent platform for development by allowing developers, operators and OEMs to contribute to a series of open source tests that they can perform and require to ensure device implementations function consistently and problem-free across a wide range of deployment scenarios. The program will provide tests, and a framework to run those tests, under the philosophy that the more developers, operators and OEMs contribute to the testing effort, the faster de-fragmentation of the underlying platforms can happen, leading to larger device deployment bases. Initial tests have been contributed, under the Eclipse Public License, by Sony Ericsson and France Telecom/Orange. The tests are built to run on the Java Device Test Framework, contributed by Sun, and available to the community under the GPLv2 license. All Java ME developers are encouraged to participate in the JATAF community at no cost, with more information available at www.jataf.com.
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