Hinkmond Wong, project lead for phoneME Advanced. Is interviewed on this edition of Java Mobile Podcast 19: phoneME Advanced Update by Daniel H. Steinberg.

Here is a little snippet of what you will find in this podcast:

There is allot of exciting things going on the phoneME Advanced project. We just released an MR2 Dev Release. It?s really cool, because we have released the source bundle and binary, which is our typical fashion of doing MR2 milestone releases. So that people can download and just run the binary, on different devices. Without needing to our subversion repository and going thru the build instructions. This makes it allot easier?

And for the first time on our MR2 Dev Release we?ve added another binary core to Windows Mobile. And lots of developers out there, calling CDC which is the core libraries and VM for phoneME Advanced, have been asking about: ?Hey! Wend are you gonna support Windows CE, and Windows Mobile?? So, we are supporting it. We?ve always had a core headless C VM port of our CDC stack to Windows Mobile. But, now we have MIDP stack on top of CDC ported on top of Windows Mobile. And this allows to do fun things, like, run midlets on top of CDC using the phoneme Advanced open source stack.
- transcript, Hinkmond Wong, project lead for phoneME Advanced

Other topics covered are the current trends happening inside the project: porting phoneME Advanced for the Linux GTK, Nokia N800, and OpenMoko.

Followed by the status of JSR169 ? JDBC for CDC:

By itself CDC does not the interfaces. To hook into, a database stack. But, there is an optional package, called JSR 169 ? JDBC for CDC. And that has the standard Java SE style, JDBC APIs that allow you to call into any type of database. So, if you had mySQL, or you had Oracle, you can that as your database on your device or on your system. And then use JDBC style API calls from your Java app to access it. But what happens with JSR 169 is, it only provides the interfaces. Only the APIs. There?s an extra step, where you have to hook those APIS to an actual implementation of a database. So in this case, Java DB as you are pointing out is an open source and freely available database, it makes perfect sense to make an implementation of JSR169, to hook into Java DB.
- transcript, Hinkmond Wong, project lead for phoneME Advanced

Java DB (Derby 10.3.1.4) has the ability to run on the CDC/Foundation 1.1 - Here Derby supports the JSR 169 interface. Previous editions had support for CDC/Foundation 1.0. This is later on, mentioned by Daniel H. Steinberg.

Queried about the next steps for the platform, Hinkmond Wong, replied that the community has much to say on its direction. The phoneME group wants to have more interaction with the community.

They are asking the community to join them in several web events. One such event will be held, Thu. 27 Sep. 2007 @ 0800 AM, US/Pacific Time. Further details, can be found on the phoneME Advanced forums.