My D-Link broadband router died about 4:00 this afternoon. I'll replace it tomorrow morning, but in the meantime Mokka mit Schlag and The Cafes are offline.
Update: I think I've finally got the router fully working again. Knock wood. It's really annoying that it can't reload a config from a different version of the firmware, nor does it show the config in plain text so you can print out and inspect the configuration details. It also doesn't provide sufficient diagnostics or error messages. I have to guess what might be wrong.
Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR-271, Mobile Information Device Profile 3 to the Java Community Process (JCP). According to the draft,
Mobile Information Devices (MIDs) span a potentially wide set of capabilities. Rather than attempt to address all such capabilities, previous MIDP Experts Groups (JSR 037 and JSR 118) agreed to limit the set of APIs specified, addressing only those functional areas that were considered absolute requirements needed to achieve broad portability and successful deployments. The MIDP 3.0 Expert Group continued and extended this philosophy to expand upon the existing MIDP functionality in all areas, improve interoperability across implementations, and build upon the success of MIDP 2.0 by enhancing the profile in the following areas:
- Platform : enable and specify proper MIDlet behavior on each of CLDC, CDC, and OSGi
- Shared Components : enable statically shared libraries
- Application Lifecycle (i.e., defining the semantics of a MIDP application and how it is controlled) :
- clarify and extend to specify proper behavior of concurrently executing MIDlets
- Security Framework and Security Policy
- Networking : connection preferences
- Persistent storage : define a secure binary interchange format for the provisioning of record stores
Comments are due by February 5.