I prefer Java on the cellphone because it offers a way out of the current fragmented market. I programmed a barcode reader for Symbian OS and grew discouraged when my app had to be repeatedly ported for each new release of the OS -- version 6.0 series 1, version 6.0 series 2, etc.Even though they're moving toward an open system I suspect they'll continue to fragment the market in that way. The idea is to force people to buy a new cellphone to get new capabilities. Developers have to keep buying or renting new phones and testing. It's just not a workable model for a small developer. With Java I get good, free development tools, a good emulator (the Symbian emulator I was using wasn't really an emulator, just another implementation of the API), and the possibility of debugging complex algorithms in J2SE. And people all over the world can download my code (I've done some face detection and barcode reading stuff in the JJIL project on Google code) and use it, which is pretty cool. It would be even better if I could get anything working on Android, but you know how that's been going... -- Jon Webb

On Jul 21, 12:21 am, "efon...@gmail.com" <efon...@gmail.com> wrote: