As has been said in another
thread, I think the real issue isn't so much lack of interest as the fact that there's just not the same push for J2ME as there is for JWS in the marketplace. It's a factor of web services being the 'in' thing and easily accessable to more people than a mobile app. *shrugs*
For instance, I'd love to run mobile apps, but my phone doesn't support it. On the other hand, it takes very little playing with my webserver at home to run a web service (installing Axis took me maybe five minutes).
Give it time. Folks will come in here more as more Java-enabled phones become affordable in the US, and bandwidth in North America for mobile phones increases.