JXME 2.0 Stable Release Announced

As an early adopter of JXTA 5 years ago, I am now very interested in JXTA-J2ME (JXME) project

JXME is to provide JXTA compatible functionality on constrained devices using the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), and the Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 (MIDP). The range of devices include the smart phones to PDAs. Using JXTA-J2ME, any MIDP device will be able to participate in P2P activities with other JXTA devices

Some massive multiusers mobile and locative applications would have a lot to gain from a P2P architecture.

Very interesting, is the project’s list of technological constraints to provide P2P functionalities:
• 50k MIDlet size Current cell phones have a total limit of about 123K for storing all MIDlet suites. In addition, Motorola phones currently limit each MIDlet to be no more than 50K and NTT DoCoMo phones limit MIDlets to 30K.
• Persistent storage on cell phones can be as little as 8K which is shared by all the MIDlets.
• Runtime heap is of the order of 32K – 64K
• Bandwidth is very limited and latency is high
• CPU power is very limited – around 20MHz.
• Battery life is very critical.
• Limited libraries MIDP-2.0