However, Oracle may have an incentive to do what it can to push mobile Java, one observer said.

“I don’t see any reason why Oracle wouldn’t just keep going in the same direction or become more aggressive because this gives them an entree into mobile,” said David Adams, founder of Mobile Research. His company maintains and sells a database of mobile phones that developers use to make sure their applications work on different models. Adams is a Java developer and once served on a Java advisory group.