Beloved beta users, we just launched an interesting new Java application (or actually, application platform) called MUPE under Nokia Beta Labs.

For users:

MUPE is an emerging mobile playground to have fun with your friends. Just install the MUPE client to your phone, and start enjoying the growing collection of MUPE games and services.

For developers:

Multi-User Publishing Environment (MUPE) is an open source application platform for mobile multi-user context-aware applications. MUPE allows anyone to easily create their own mobile services, games and applications - only server side programming is required. Learn more from http://www.mupe.net.

Download here.

MUPE is an open source project and it has been public for quite some time already, as Gorkem Ercan pointed out in Java for S60 blog last September. Now, however, it has matured into an official Nokia Beta Labs release, and we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Note: this is not (yet) a mainstream application development platform, like the ones promoted by Forum Nokia, and therefore the developer support is limited.