Awesome J2ME
Details
- External ID
- 45991497
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Awesome J2ME
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 79
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.888646288209607
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Model Context Protocol developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- j2me resources and tools
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 7 launches clear the similarity bar.
Attention rank: #2 of 8 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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