JavaOne Conference 2007
Symbian joins the industry leaders at this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
At this year's JavaOne conference Roy Ben Hayun will be talking about Runtime Environments (including Ruby, JRuby and other scripting languages), why Symbian OS is the best platform for mobile Java applications and presenting innovative applications running on Symbian phones.
The Java Conference 2007 takes place from May 8th to May 11th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Symbian BOF session
Session ID: BOF-5122
Session Title: JRubME Is JRuby on JavaME: Making It Happen
Room: Esplanade 303
Date: 10 MAY 07
Start Time: 20:55
Application Showcase
Showcase Symbian Apps on the Sun ISV Pod
Demonstration of Symbian phones with innovative applications for finance, consumer, enterprise etc.
Time and place to be provided soon.
Full details can be found here.
Orange Partner Camp
Cape Canaveral, 16-18 April 2007 – registration is now open!
Take one small step to Orange Partner Camp, Cape Canaveral and make one big step for your business!
If you’re a:
- business or consumer downloadable applications provider
- service enabler or platform providers
- converged service or solution provider
- service publishers
- service aggregators
- systems integrators or ISV
Then come to Orange Partner Camp, Cape Canaveral – Symbian will be there as Gold sponsors.
If you’re interested in finding out exactly how you can work with Orange and Symbian in the new converged marketplace, take a look at the website www.orangepartnercamp.com to find out more and register.
Yet again, Orange has kept the price low, at $595 for three days and two nights, together with food and entertainment. Places for the event, as always, are limited, and this will be the only opportunity to attend an Orange Partner Camp in 2007!
We look forward to seeing you there!
ACCU Conference 2007
Symbian joins the industry luminaries at this year’s ACCU conference in Oxford
Find out about this event here.
Open C Roadshow 2007
March 14, Santa Clara, California and March 16, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Open C Roadshow, which is being held this week across the USA, is organised by Forum Nokia and co-sponsored by Symbian. It aims to showcase the power of P.I.P.S. and Open C, and is targeted at both PC and new mobile developers.
P.I.P.S., part of Symbian OS v9, is a set of standard POSIX libraries that
increases developer productivity by enabling the reuse of existing software assets. Open C, part of S60 3rd Edition, expands on these libraries, adding middleware C libraries to ensure that the barrier to entry to creating S60 applications has never been lower.
Why you should attend:
- Learn how to easily develop for S60 using P.I.P.S. and Open C
- Hear developing tips and tricks, case studies, and best practices
- Find out how to get your applications Symbian Signed
- Network with Nokia, Symbian, your peers, and other industry leaders
More information on the events is available here.
Post-roadshow report by Mark Shackman and Hetal Patel
The Open C Roadshow, held in conjunction with Nokia, toured the United States during March 2007. Each day-long event contained a series of talks aimed both at developers familiar with Open C/P.I.P.S. and those new to coding for Symbian OS and S60.
The “Fundamentals of Symbian C++” presentation was particularly well received in San Jose, CA, and several people commented that they had been searching for “a good Symbian overview, but had, until now, not found it... they really liked the presentation”. Though some attendees did note that there is a steep initial learning curve to Symbian C++, one developer told the Cambridge, MA, event that, with experience, “Symbian OS C++ is easy”. The roadshow’s more technical discussions ranged from topics such as Platform Security for DLLs, through to redistributing Open C libraries with third-party applications.
Find out more about P.I.P.S. and OpenC.
Eclipsecon 2007
Attended by Thibaut Rouffineau, Director of Developer Engagements and Experience
What a great tools week we had at Eclipsecon in Santa Clara from the 6th to the 9th of March 2007!
We discussed how we could all progress to better developer tools for the mobile world with our licensees. An example of this can be seen with Motorola and Nokia collaborating on Java tools. Another example is the Tools for Mobile Linux project.
Our Eclipse committers were also delighted to meet the rest of the Eclipse community (CDT and DSDP projects). With the DSDP TM presentation by Javier Montalvo receiving a specially warm welcome. The Pluginfest concept was also presented and hopefully will bring further events of this type in the near future. There were talks about a Java Enterprise event or maybe a Japanese embedded and mobile event.
Outside of the mobile and embedded space Eclipse is benefiting from new additions around application collaboration projects (with the jazz project from IBM), and task facilitation with the much discussed Mylar project, all of which could be helpful for Symbian development.
A few interesting talks also grabbed our attention outside of the tooling
space with Nokia and IBM demonstrating eRCP running on S80, which is basically offering an alternative runtime environment to .net for
enterprise developers to mobilize their applications. Fujitsu demonstrated another runtime in the shape of the NAB project, and RAD tools which targets multiple platforms, which are popular in China and Japan.