Oracle has released the latest version of Java ME Embedded. It targets the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

Underlying much of the connected devices that make up the Internet of Things is Java ME 8 software. At MakerCon 2015, inventors tested the commercial waters for their wares.

The new embedded version of Java has everything you would expect from a microcontroller development platform – access to GPIO pins, including SD cards and I2C devices.

When Sun Microsystems introduced Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME, which was renamed recently to Java ME) to the world in 2000, the promise was to bring Java's "write once, run anywhere" ...

Oracle today announced the latest update of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) is specifically optimized for some popular ARM-based embedded chip architectures.

Learn how the Data Transfer Object design pattern is implemented in Java ME architectures and why you might want to use XML-based DTOs rather than Java beans for faster data interchange between ...

According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) , giving instant credibility ...

Sun is hoping open sourcing Java ME will help stop the fragmentation in the market, instead driving convergence around the freely available version of Java.