I know I'm not the only mobilewhack developer out there. J2ME Polish, a promising new library for J2ME developers, offers powerful CSS based screen design, device database, and integration with your IDE of choice {Eclipse,NetBeans,JBuilder}. Screenshots look very exciting. Open Source and commercial licenses available.

For those of you brewing up Java for the Nokia 6600, here's a potentially useful list of links.

Steve over at Burningdoor takes the new MIDP 2.0 beta release for Palm out for a spin. Of particular note:

The toolkit also includes a packaging utility to convert JAD and JAR files into the Palm OS PRC format, developer documentation, and a readme with the latest fixes and known issues. Some new highlights of this release include support for platformRequest() for opening web pages (http://,https://) and sending emails (mailto:), OTA/AMS/JAM support, and Comm serial port connections over IrDA and Bluetooth. The OTA supports means you can now install JAD/JAR natively over-the-air without conversion to PRC. Game API performance is also significantly improved.

If you're looking to download the release yourself, he also provides some directions for even finding it on their Plugged In site.

At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Edd Dumbill informed me that the P800 supports personal Java, so you can go beyond the capabilities of MIDP. This came up in #mobilewhack today, and some googling led us to this Memory Dump entry that points to jCompile, which lets you compile Java apps right on the phone.