The Java Store has been around for a while now. I’d be very interested if anyone has published any games on there, and if so then how successful it was for you.
don’t think it was officially launched yet.
There was a dodgy alpha/beta version of it floating around a while back, if its anything like that its unlikely to be very successful.
No update since many months. Seems to be slowly dying. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Oracle probably silently killed the project, could well be the the reason Mr Golsing left.
I wouldn’t be surprised after having seen how painful it was to just upload/subscribe an app.
I tried to get my game in, it was totally broken. I can’t see it ever working out.
Are there really no success stories???
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Well it is still a beta. I wouldn’t mind knowing what it looks like atm. Hopefully they still working on it.
I get contacted now and again to publish some games on it but to be honest I don’t think it’s a good idea. At all. So I’m just going to sit tight and see what appears on it and what sort of press reaction the whole thing gets. I imagine an extraordinarily incisive and caustic review from the Register is just waiting to be unleashed.
Cas 
Don’t be so pessimistic!!! 
Haha, Droid Assault just got rejected from the store because it’s “inappropriate” 
It’s a bit like the Apple store… except there’s no money in it and no-one needs it. I still haven’t fathomed out why anyone at Sun thought it was a good idea. Surely it’s only a matter of time before the new Oracle overlords notice?
Cas
What, seriously? Apple only deems stuff inappropriate if it has porn in it or talks bad about Apple. What the hell is wrong with Droid Assault?
Or if it does something they want to lock you into using their app for (feature limited != elegant). Or if they are having a bad day, or just don’t bother to look at your app very hard. My app got rejected because they claimed it stole their icons. My response was proof that it used open source icons, to which they replied, OK fine. : The best part is it’s the only way to distribute iPhone apps, and you have to complete an app before finding out if it is acceptable.
The Java store really is a joke. I was contacted by a Sun marketing person to try to put my game in it. Their submission process was a complete failure. I ended up working directly with a Sun engineer, submitting all kinds of serious bugs and showstopper problems. I know it is supposedly beta, but it is really a pile of crap. Not to even mention the GUI of the actual store itself!