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News Release from: Metrowerks Europe | Subject: Wireless development centres
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2002
Wireless development centres aid 2.5G
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Metrowerks is now offering the use of live testing facilities to wireless application developers, handset manufacturers and middleware vendors, giving them access to Metrowerks' mobile network.
Metrowerks is now offering the use of live testing facilities to wireless application developers, handset manufacturers and middleware vendors, giving them access to Metrowerks' mobile network, which provides CDMA, GSM (2G) and GPRS (2.5G) services Metrowerks is the first development tools company in the world to provide a live 2.5G mobile network for wireless applications testing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Metrowerks has opened two new European sales offices and wireless development centres in Basingstoke, England and Stockholm, Sweden.
A third centre is scheduled to open in Q3 2002 at the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas.
The wireless development centres offer developers an opportunity to test their applications, devices or application servers in a controlled environment with a live, real-world wireless network connection.
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Each lab will be equipped with the latest wireless technologies available for development and testing, including wireless devices, messaging, wireless gateways and application servers.
Metrowerks' tools and services can help wireless developers through the entire development cycle.
For instance, a Java application developer could use Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Java, the first development tool to fully support Sun Microsystems' J2ME and PersonalJava standards, to create powerful Java applications for wireless devices, and then to test and debug the applications on a software emulator.
The application could then be loaded onto a real target device, such as a mobile phone, and tested using the powerful CodeWarrior on-device remote debugger.
Finally, developers can use the wireless development centres to test the application in a real network with a variety of different devices.
"As more and more Java technology-based wireless devices continue to come onto the market, developers will benefit from Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Java and Metrowerks' assistance in getting their applications ready for prime time", said Chris Hogan, Sr Marketing Director, Java Strategy and Product Marketing, Sun Microsystems.
"With its wireless development centres, Metrowerks will assist numerous Java application developers through the entire process, from development to testing to deployment".
Wireless application gateway (WAP) and middleware vendors can use the centres to make their software available for developers to use and test.
Furthermore, the centres provide a venue for wireless developers to meet with Metrowerks wireless experts, who can share their knowledge and expertise to further enhance or create applications for the mobile world.
"As a provider of business acceleration software, AGEA is incorporating our platform into the wireless network infrastructure for customers to develop and test applications", said Russell Glass, vice president of strategy, AGEA Corp.
"This infrastructure and the ability to test using a myriad of mobile devices will help customers to push applications to market faster and increase access to top-notch technical expertise".
"These testing facilities demonstrate just how committed Metrowerks is to the success of the wireless developer community", said John Smolucha, vice president of marketing, Metrowerks.
"We already provide world class tools, but for wireless developers, that's only part of the solution.
The ability to test and debug an application on various wireless devices with a real-world network connection is crucial prior to taking that application to market".
The wireless development centres extend Metrowerks' wireless device support, bringing increased value to software developers using Metrowerks' development tools for Palm OS, PersonalJava, Java Card, J2ME, Sharp Zaurus, embedded Linux, DragonBall, ARM and Symbian OS platforms.
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