Attendees of this session should expect detailed instruction on how to download, build, run, and develop code using the phoneME open source project. Conference participants will see first-hand how to use this open source project to build something new for the exciting world of wireless devices. There will be step-by-step examples of developing new platforms, building cool apps, and creating interesting demos on Java ME technology-enabled cell phones.

The phoneME project is the open source project at java.net that addresses the Java software stack for mobile phones (also known in the past as J2ME and Java ME technology). The objective of the phoneME project is to further expand the usage of Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) technology in the mobile handset market. The project scope includes a focus on the mainstream feature phone segment with phoneME Feature software, and the emerging advanced phone segment with phoneME Advanced software. Our goal in making these technologies available to the mobile and embedded community as open source code is to reduce implementation variation, increase the rate of innovation, and enable new devices to leverage the power of the Java ME platform.