Awesome J2ME
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An awesome list about Java platform Micro edition(J2ME). Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. J2ME is a Java specification designed for old keypad phones and PDAs. MIDP, which is built upon CLDC, is used to create Midlets, which have `.jad` or `.jar` extension, and run on platforms like old keypad phones, Symbian and PDAs. MIDP is supported till Java ME SDK 3.4.
HN · launched Nov 20, 2025 · 79 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view
Niche: developer learning resources and directories · 122 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a curated markdown list ('Awesome list') repository of J2ME resources, which requires no software engineering beyond collecting links.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MeBoy (Game Boy emulator for J2ME), Root Bear (Playdate), Android with J2ME emulator, Pocket Gopher (J2ME Gopher client)
Concerns raised: J2ME apps behaved differently across OS variations and phones, FileInputStream could only seek forward, not backward, No floating point support, Limited memory resources (64KB JAR era), Device-specific bugs with threading/register sign-extension
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 35 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 36 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- j2me-revival · github · 2026-10-29 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- j2vita · github · 2026-10-30 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- JMR Publisher · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- CheerpJ · ph · 2026-11-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- PocketCoded Java · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- SANBUD MEP · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics · hn · 2026-09-08 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- jev-mem · github · 2026-10-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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