We talked about Janus some time ago. Now, thanks to Simon Judge’s blog we get noticed that it has gone open source.
As is stated in project’s web page, “Janus Symbian Engine is a local http server (for Flash Lite) for Smartphones (S60), which allows developers to create engaging Flash Lite applications. It allows you to extend Flash Lite functionalities using simple local http calls”.
This approach tries to fill the gap between a rich and easy to code application framework that does not offer enough native functionality (Flash Lite) and a hard to code but rich in native APIs like Symbian S60.
I’ve heard about something similar talking about Symbian and J2ME, instead of Flash Lite… Some other people has worked with Python for S60… Anything to avoid coding Symbian.
My thought is that, while this kind of approaches may be valid for a concrete project, it can’t be taking into consideration as application platform architecture for production. The way to go is including rich APIs that provide access to native phone functionality in such platforms like JME and Flash Lite.
Via MobilePhoneDev
Link janus
August 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I agree to the part that Flash Lite or platform X should have extra features natively, but that would be so naive expectation considering politic and control problems of such platform owners.
I do not agree with the part that this approach can not be taken into consideration as a platform for production. We have similar but much mature and advanced platform; which is as a platform by many developers, with great results.
http://www.kunerilite.net/content/view/28/44/