SAN FRANCISCO - Orange SA and T-Mobile AG's T-Mobile Europe unit are the first carriers to join the Java Verified Program,
a group formed to ease the approval of Java-based applications for mobile phones and speed them on to carrier networks, Sun
Microsystems Inc. is set to announce Thursday.
The program, announced at the 3GSM World Congress in February, is intended to give developers and carriers one place to go
for certifying that Java applications work correctly on specific mobile phones. By turning to the Java Verified Program, the
carriers save themselves the expense of certifying the applications in-house, said Greg Wolff, group marketing manager for
mobile systems at Sun. Sun expects a growing number of mobile operators to join the program for this reason, he added. The
new members are to be announced in advance of next week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
Developers of Java applications for mobile phones can submit their software to the http://www.javaverified.com Web site and
choose among a number of testing houses to verify it, according to Wolff. Among other things, the testers make sure the program
loads and runs correctly on a particular phone, he said. Applications tested under the program bear a digital signature and
the Java splash screen to verify to carriers that they have been approved.
The Java Verified Program grew out of the Unified Testing Initiative, launched at JavaOne in 2003 by Sun and mobile phone
vendors Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Siemens AG. Orange and T-Mobile Europe are
joining those members on the program.
Orange operates mobile networks in 19 European countries. T-Mobile Europe includes T-Mobile operations in Germany, the U.K.,
Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, according to Sun.
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