Terrence Barr is a Senior Technologist at Sun Microsystems and Ambassador of the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. He has 15+ years of industry experience with more than 10 of those years at Sun. He has been working on various technical aspects of embedded systems and Java ME for a number of years including implementation and optimization of virtual machines, byte code hardware acceleration, and multiprocessor platforms. Terrence also participates or has participated in organizations such as JCP, OMA, EEMBC, and VITA, is author and co-author of a number of U.S. and European patents, and speaks frequently at various conferences around the world including JavaOne. Terrence is also the project owner of the ME Application Developers project.

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Java is installed on around 85% of all mobile phones - and growing. It is also shipped on every Blu-ray player, millions of set-top boxes, and is the de-facto standard for many embedded applications. So what's coming for Java on mobile and embedded devices, what cool technologies should developers be aware of, and what's happening in the Java Mobile & Embedded open source community?

Building rich user interfaces on mobile devices and embedded platforms used to be hard. With the advent of the open-source Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) developers now can create compelling applications that look and work great across a wide range of todays mobile devices but also run on desktops and embedded platforms with minimal effort. Learn more about this cool new technology that the developer community is increasingly excited about.