The number of registered downloads reached the past november the milestone of 10.000 as the following picture shows:

What is especially remarkable in the above graph is the continuously increasing trend.

The next picture details the total downloads per month and their relation with MyMobileWeb releases and events.

It is worth mentioning that:

• The first LGPL MyMobileWeb version(3.4.1) produced a significant peak in the number of downloads.
• The “base” number of downloads (even without new versions) reaches 150 per month

The MyMobileWeb team is pleased to announce the release of version 4 RC2 and the release of version 1.3 of the Plugin. You can download this new release candidate 2 and the plugin from here. The release candidate 2 fixes bugs appeared in the previous release candidate and it’s the minimum version compatible with the Plugin 1.3.

The soccer portal dedicated to the Spanish League can be load from the Plugin.

Further information can be found here.

The MyMobileWeb team met during June 30th and July 1st, 2nd. We discussed the roadmap and we checked the status of the different activities and developments. Yuou can find the presentations at

http://forge.morfeo-project.org/wiki_en/index.php/PlenaryanddevmeetingSummer2009

The main resolutions we took were:

MyMobileWeb v4 Beta will be available on September 30th

MyMobileWeb v4 will be available on October 30th

Thank you

A new Flow Engine based on SCXML has been included in MyMobileWeb platform. With this new implementation, the flow of any MyMobileWeb application could be defined in a declarative way by using the SCXML language. The main advantages of this approach are:

• legibility: the whole application flow is clearly visible by looking at the flow definition file(s)

• simplicity: users avoid the use of Java Event Handlers

• standards-based solution: SCXML is a W3C technology

• flexibility: SCXML is a generic State Machine Language, so it can be adapt to concrete use cases.

The new SCXML Flow Engine is already available in the Nightly Build. You can find further information about how to use it in the SCXML Getting Started wiki page.

We have been evaluating Mobile JSF an open source product intended to the development of mobile web applications, which has been recently released by Ericsson. The main conclusion is that it is a couple of light years behind MyMobileWeb. The most important limitations of Mobile JSF with respect to MyMobileWeb are:

• Mobile JSF’s device database contains only a minimal set of devices with a minimal set of properties. This fact has led us to the conclusion that Mobile JSF is not doing any kind of advanced content adaptation. They only send the correct markup to each device, but as we know, that is not enough. Remember that MyMobileWeb uses a bunch of properties to adapt to devices, the majority of them coming from WURFL.
• CSS Media Queries selection mechanisms are not as flexible as the style overriding mechanisms provided by MyMobileWeb. For instance, in MyMobileWeb, using style overriding, one can, very easily, to set up different layouts for different devices.
• Content selection based on CSS Media Queries is not efficient nor feasible in terms of bandwidth consumption. MyMobileWeb selects content at the server side which is far more efficient
• Automatic Pagination functionalities are not present in Mobile JSF
• Automatic Validations based on script on the client side are not supported by Mobile JSF
• The set of user interface components is very poor compared to MyMobileWeb’s

Conclusion: Mobile JSF is not an alternative to MyMobileWeb.