Mobile Tools for Java - Current Project Status

Christian Kurzke (Motorola Software Platform Delivery team), Gustavo de Paula (C.E.S.A.R)

Mobile And Embedded · Short Talk

Tuesday, 11:40, 10 minutes | Room 209/210 |

Christian Kurzke

Gustavo de Paula

The objective of this talk is to present the current status of the "Mobile Tools for Java" (MTJ) Eclipse project. This project provides a set of frameworks and exemplary tools for Mobile Java Application Developers. Recently MTJ has undergone a restructuring, and we are presenting the current status of the project and give an overview of the roadmap. This talk will be valuable for both, Tools Developers aiming to extend the MTJ frameworks to create their own development tools, as well as Application developers who are interested in how to utilize the features of the latest MTJ release.

Christian Kurzke is the Architect for Motorola's MOTODEV Studio, Contributor to the Eclipse MTJ project and leads the Eclipse Tools for Mobile Linux (TML) project.

Christian has been a member and contributor to the Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) embedded Java component standard and has contributed to CableLabs specifications. He is a frequent speaker at conferences like JavaOne, Embedded Systems conferences and WWW conferences. He has been a Linux developer and advocate since the early days of pre 1.0 kernels, and he is well regarded for his work in the embedded Java space.

Christian graduated from the University of Erlangen Germany with the equivalent of an MS-CS degree (Dipl. Inf. univ.) and holds an MBA degree from Santa Clara University.

Mr. De Paula is a current contributor to the MTJ project. He has a long background with wireless technology and has being working with Java in mobile devices since the first release of MIDP 1.0 in 2000. He has implemented several projects for carriers, such as Vivo and BellSounth and handset manufactures, such as Motorola. Mr. De Paula holds a MSc. in Computer Science and has presented at conferences like JavaOne and Comdex. Currently he is a Senior consultant for Wireless Technology at CESAR - Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems where he works a software architect of for Java development tools.