To whom it may concern.
   
August 2012.

I just spent the first three weeks of August trying to install the Java 
Mobile SDK.  Usually I assume it's my fault, but after trying every 
possibility under the sun, two, three, four or a dozen times, I have to 
ask:  'is it me or is it the distribution?'

What is wrong with Oracle?

Java has always been quirky, but now Oracle seems to have taken it to a 
new level.

    A couple of quick observations.  One, you can no longer download the 
document packages.  This is important.  Sun used to package all the api, 
tutorials, instructions, everything, into a zip package you could install 
on your desktop computer.  It was all set up in nice, convenient, html 
frames making access to the data fast, rather than have to wait for pages 
to load online.  Oracle has  stopped distributing the zipped download and 
has added a distribution agreement, stating you can only make local 
copies.   Waiting for page to load online cripples development of source 
code, as I open dozens if not hundreds of api pages when writing my code.
	Two!  Oracle has added a registration web page, that boots up 
automatically when you  install the JDK 6 and possible JDK 7.  Not that 
there's anything wrong with this, but it just goes to demonstrate Oracle's 
intent and their move to put a strangle hold on Java.
	Three!  One of the most important innovations of our time is Java 
ME, for cell phones, portable devices and even memory cards, TV sets and 
refrigerators.  With the Samsung/Apple case this make Java even more 
important.  Yet Oracle doesn't make any extra attempt to document 
installation or usage.  In fact they seem to be working hard to control 
costs associated with developing Java and documentation.  If open source 
doesn't take over I fear for future of Java in Oracle's strangle hold.
	     I've been downloading over a dial-up connection so I don't 
have all the results.  Maybe Oracle is attempting to put everything mobile 
into the Netbeans wizard/template machine/IDE.  I can't download the 257MB 
Netbeans package that includes JME 3.0.5.  I can only download JME 3.0.5 
seperately, which no longer contains the wizards or toolkits.  Instead I 
must use it from the command line.  Oracle has been gracious enough to 
leave and emulator in with the JME download.   It doen't work though.  
Sun's J2ME 2.5.2 works just fine, but the latest and greatest, 3.0.5 has 
all sorts of hoops to jump through.   The worst hoop, the last one before 
I finally got it to work, that only took two weeks, that I couldn't afford 
to spend,  was that you had to use the 1.3 source and target commands.
		 I'm not sure exactly what target 1.3 and source 1.3 are, 
but I assume it has something to do with the Java SDK distribution, which 
is up to 1.7 now.    I couldn't get anything to run on the emulator until 
I compiled my source code with -target 1.3 and -source 1.3.  Thanks to a 
stackoverflow.com blog that talked about setting 'compliance' to 1.3,  for 
Elcipse, the only thing that made sense from the command line was setting 
the target.  It worked.  I don't why it worked, but it worked. 
		    It just seems to me that Oracle is saying 'screw the 
little guy'.  Well, maybe they're right.  Sun folded, but I always 
suspected that was because of their arrogance.  I would hope Oracle can 
see Java as a way of cementing a base relationship with programmers by 
supporting open source and documentation for Java.