Nokia released a new Java Runtime 2.1 Beta for Symbian. This beta release can be installed to S60 5.0 devices only and will be available later this year for Symbian^3 devices. the Nokia Symbian Java Runtime team are going to release final add-on SIS package to S60 5.0 devices this year.

With the beta release developers can trial their Java applications on the new Java Runtime with existing S60 5.0 devices. This will provide early info for developers on how apps will behave on upcoming Symbian^3 devices. Some of the new features of course are dependent on Symbian^3 devices' new OS and hardware features.

 

 

In beta labs pages we list only features that work in S60 5.0 devices via Java Runtime but in Forum Nokia Java Runtime 2.1 Release Notes page we list all features highlighting the ones that are dependent on Symbian^3 device features.

 

 

 

Documentation for long-waited developer features can be already seen from Java Developer's Library rel 3.4 and we are refreshing that next week with rel 3.5 covering JRT 2.1 more in depth with examples and tutorials covering the new features and APIs. Nokia is also soon releasing alpha SDK for these new developer features.

 

 

 

We have been developing Java Runtime 2.1 for Symbian^3 and now offer it as a beta release for selected S60 5th Edition devices. The Java Runtime 2.1 Beta includes a number of new features compared to the Java Runtime 2.0 Beta that we shared here earlier. Java Runtime 2.1 Beta also fixes several issues.

 

here are the release notes for the Beta 2.1 in detail: Nokia Forum

thanks to Aleksi and Nokia Beta Labs Blog for heads up :-)