These are the final results of the JSR Review Ballot for JSR #172. The Executive Committee for ME has approved this ballot.

JSR172

StageJSR Review Ballot

Ballot durationMar 5, 2002 to Mar 18, 2002

Votes

ME

BEA Systems

Cisco Systems

Ericsson Inc.

IBM

Insignia Solutions

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Motorola

Nokia Corporation

PalmSource, Inc.

Philips Electronics UK Ltd

Research In Motion, LTD (RIM)

Siemens AG

Sony International (Europe) GmbH

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Texas Instruments Inc.

Zucotto Wireless

Vote Log

ME

On 2002-03-18 IBM voted Yes with the following comment:
While the web services package should co-exist with MIDP it should not prereq MIDP. Web services need to be applicable to the broadest range of J2ME profiles and configurations.
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On 2002-03-18 Insignia Solutions voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-18 Nokia Corporation voted Yes with the following comment:
While showing green light for the JSR proposal, we need to bring up the following issues: 
The memory footprint for the needed 'platform support' for XML and XML-based-RPC in a 'MIDP implementation', may become too large to support a mass market CLDC device. This is especially true for devices where 'web services client' support is just one of many features on the device.  In addition, space is needed for example to store XML documents. Furthermore for applications (e.g. MIDlets) using the API, considerable code space may be needed beyond their basic business logic for XML-based-RPC stubs, and for manipulating the contents of XML document trees.

All further decisions by Nokia about suitability and implementatibility of this JSR will be based on the fact of how well the Spec and its RI will address the needs of the memory and performance constrained mass market CLDC devices. 
If not it may become necessary, at least for the most memory-limited devices, have alternative solutions; for example to define and standardize a very 'lightweight' approach involving the use of "proxies", and a simple messaging structure that doesn't necessarily involve XML based requests and responses from e.g. a MIDlet J2ME client. 

And just for the clarity this JSR might wish to say that it is targetting the mobile 'client-role' in web services.
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On 2002-03-16 Siemens AG voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-15 Zucotto Wireless voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-15 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-11 Texas Instruments Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-11 Motorola voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-11 Philips Electronics UK Ltd voted Yes with the following comment:
Philips supports this with the following comments;

1) We expect the two packages being developed (parsing & RPC) to have separate RI & TCK so that it is possible to deploy just the parsing package without the RPC one.

2) We're surprised the JSR doesn't mention JAXM. Due to the way TV Anytime (and lots of other web services, such as UDDI) define their transactions, SOAP-RPC (a specific use of
SOAP) cannot be used. What this means is that JAXM, which is basically more generic than JAX-RPC, would be a better match for these needs.

3) We hope the solution can be one which is not just specific to enterprise services and mobile devices but has enough functionality for consumer services and devices like TV receivers etc.
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On 2002-03-08 Research In Motion, LTD (RIM) voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-06 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-03-06 Cisco Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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