Rogers, Rick schrieb: > Nils, Hi Rick! > BONDI, JIL and WAC (add > http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com/docs/whitepaper.pdf to your list)
Ah, didn't know JIl and WAC yet, thanks ;) > all converge around web applications written to HTML5, with extensions > to support handset features that are beyond HTML5. I don't know of > anyone working on BONDI for MeeGo, but would be very interested in > learning anything you come across. I think you're right, it wouldn't be > that hard - maybe WAC is the place to focus moving forward? I know the I had a brief look at all three again, I started with WAC and stumbled accross an issue - I think... the governance. So I checked that again with all three. What I do not like about WAC is that it is 100% operator focussed and the name of the project makes IMHO their intention pretty clear "Wholesale Application" - they are only interested in creating a broad application market. While this is of course one of the valid goals it should not be the only one. As a developer I miss the "level of invention" here. The governance of WAC though suggests that selling applications is *the* driving factor for the project and to the few major players in it: There are a few core operators that build the board of directors and new (operator) members can only get a non-voting visitor seat in the board. No mention of other possibly parties (like vendors or makers) and especially not mention of third party developers e.g. from the open source. This sounds pretty limited - sounds like a pretty narrow minded club to me so I would personally not like to pursue that road. Also from technology standpoint it seems to me that they are only up to taking up existing bits and specify a (sub-)set they want to support in WAC. It does not seem that they want to actually do much own development. JIL is similar, only members are China Mobile, SoftBank Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone, 100% operator driven again. But they are up to do own development and want to provide an SDK - well... In contrast to those two OMTP is a quite larger organisation, current OMTP members: http://www.omtp.org/Membership.aspx and Bondi seems to be pretty open, it is Apache licensed and announced as an open source project which at least suggests that open source developers can take some part in it. I should probably note that I am not affiliated with OMTP nor Bondi ;) > folks at Aplix and ACCESS were involved with the OMTP reference > implementation of BONDI. Yes, since they are LiMo foundation members (as is Wind River) and LiMo seems to go away from native applications towards Web2.0 someone had to do the job ;) > Rick Rogers > Wind River Cheers nils -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
