July 20, 2005
JavaOne 2005: reiterating the importance of On-Device Debugging

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Sony Ericsson Developer World was at JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco, USA, from June 27-30, 2005, demonstrating the technical benefits of Sony Ericsson mobile phones to an interested audience of J2EE and J2ME developers. Sony Ericsson was represented in its mother company Ericsson's booth together with its sister program Ericsson Mobility World. J2EE delegates were keen to learn more about working with J2ME, and those already working with J2ME wanted to know more about Sony Ericsson's current and future support of various JSRs.

A well-attended activity was our joint technical session with Sun Microsystems.

NetBeans Mobility Pack and On-Device Debugging technical session
Thomas Bailey, Tools Product Manager at Sony Ericsson, Karel Herink (NetBeans Software Developer) and Matt Volpi (Senior Product Manager) from Sun Microsystems, hosted a joint technical session about the integration between NetBeans 4.1 IDE and the Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK. This was a well attended session with over 250 delegates but if you were unable to go to San Francisco, here's a short summary.

In addition to providing an overview and demonstrations of the J2ME application basics, layout of the Mobile Visual Designer and a device fragmentation solution, they also ran a live demonstration of On-Device Debugging using a Sony Ericsson K750 mobile phone. This was the third year in a row that Sony Ericsson showed this valuable feature to JavaOne visitors.

The session highlighted how the Sony Ericsson SDK, with only a few clicks, can be seamlessly integrated into the NetBeans IDE. Once integrated, attendees witnessed how On-Device Debugging provides a "real world" answer to many of the problems encountered when developing for a constantly evolving market. On-Device Debugging enables you to track down difficult, device-specific bugs in an application, step through code execution on the actual mobile phone and helps streamline the development process.

To see an overview of the technical session, download the presentation>>

James Gosling from Sun Microsystems complimenting On-Device Debugging
During his keynote presentation entitled "Java Technology Contributions for the Next Decade", James Gosling, Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products and one of the inventors of Java, highlighted NetBeans and especially Sony Ericsson's invaluable work to support On-Device Debugging on all of its phones with an excellent J2ME SDK. During the presentation delegates were given a live demonstration of On-Device Debugging using NetBeans 4.1, the Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK and a Sony Ericsson K750 mobile phone.

More information:

• Read about James Gosling's JavaOne 2005 presentation>>
• View James Gosling's JavaOne 2005 webcast (RealPlayer required)>>