Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform is now available under beta. Breeze is a mobile development tool that provides anyone with knowledge of even the most basic Web programming languages the easiest method for creating, testing and distributing mobile applications to phones anywhere in the world.

The Breeze platform takes code written in HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and automatically converts it into J2ME code, also known as the Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME. As a result, any Breeze created application can run on hundreds of different mobile phone types.

Breeze enables Web programmers unaccustomed to mobile development to add important functions that don’t exist on the Web, such as using the built-in camera, accessing the contact list or even adding an exit button for their applications. Once the HTML and JavaScript is compiled into J2ME, Breeze produces a mobile application that can be distributed to phones anywhere in the world, and will automatically detect the correct version to send to a phone.

Developers receive a simple line of code they can embed onto their websites, blogs or social network pages allowing people to download their new application directly to their phone over their wireless service provider’s network. The Breeze platform reduces the testing of mobile applications for hundreds of different handsets down to a single run on the Breeze Simulator.

Developers receive a simple line of code they can put on their websites, blogs or social network pages allowing people to download the application merely by entering their mobile number. Breeze also takes care of distribution via SMS, WAP Push and direct download from a mobile phone, ensuring the right version of the application is sent to each end user’s phone.

Breeze is now available to anyone who wants to create applications for mobile phones. The Breeze platform is free for any developer or programmer to use to create and distribute their mobile applications. To subsidize the cost of distribution, Cascada Mobile ad-enables each application. End users of Breeze-created applications will see mobile ads while using the applications. Options are available for developers who wish to pay for their use of the Breeze platform in order to offer ad-free applications to end users.