Nokia and Borland Team up to Enable Development of Java Applications for Wireless Devices - Borland Software Corp - Brief Article

Wireless Internet, August, 2001

Nokia and Borland Software Corp. announced new Java technology tools for mobile application developers. The collaboration between Nokia and Borland aims to significantly advance the market for wireless application development on standard-compliant platforms that expand Java technology to mobile devices.

Borland and Nokia have collaborated to deliver Jbuilder MobileSet, Nokia Edition - a Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME platform) compliant environment - fully integrated with Jbuilder 5, Borland's leading Java technology development environment, to support software development for Nokia's Java-enabled phones. Together, Jbuilder5 and Jbuilder MobileSet, Nokia Edition include visual design tools for creating mobile applications, device emulation and debugging, as well as all the other standard features offered with the Jbuilder development environment.

It is both Nokia's and Borland's intention to offer these tools to other manufacturers enabling developers to standardize on one environment for the development and deployment of Java applications across devices from multiple manufacturers.