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Asked: 2026-05-26T12:13:45+00:00

I developed some small applications for the Nokia 6131 that supported NFC. The SDK

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I developed some small applications for the Nokia 6131 that supported NFC. The SDK was special for this device, and it implemented the JSR 257.

Now, I see different mobile platforms with proprietary SDKs, each one proposing different features (Android ICS, Meego, iOS).

I would like to know which platform still support JSR 257? Also, I want to know if learning JSR 257 is still interesting or which way I could take? NFC is currently expanding, and it would be interesting to know which are the standard tools to develop for this technology. I do not want to learn a new framework, and then see that in two years is completely obsolete and unsupported.

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  1. Editorial Team

    JSR 257 is targeted at Java ME platform, so one can not expect its direct support on other platforms.

    Android and iOS plaftorms are definitely different from Java ME:

    As far as I can tell, Meego is a different platform, either.

    I want to know if learning JSR 257 is still interesting

    Per my recollection answer to above is no, unless one is comfortable with idea to be locked within a limited range of phone models, mostly from Nokia. Please note here I am referring to JSR 257 API, not to NFC in general.

    • In past project, I was assigned to review JSR 257 API analysis done by my colleague. His conclusion (to which I wholeheartedly agreed back then) was that JSR 257 API was quite poorly designed and that it would be quite difficult to write portable NFC applications using it.
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