Originally posted by a sanjuan:
well, i skimmed the book for now, and my first impressions earlier were right. quickly, and skipping the actual coding examples, i like the fact that they (1) took the time to go over the history and purpose of J2ME, since most books just plop you into the waters with no background on why the hell things are the way they are; (2) their explanation of configuration and profiles is one of the best i've read (and i have 3 st*pid books to prove it!) --- many newbies stumble over these concepts and when they open a book they find one paragraph explanations (in my case, i had to go looking around the web for clearer explanations); (3) they focused on environments beyond the usual cellphone --- i like this because i believe j2me does not just refer to wireless phones the way most people think of it.
quick nitpicks:
sorta anal about "mobile" vs "wireless";
also, didn't go too much into javacard, which i think should be merged into the core j2me;
more optimization tips might be helpful (may i missed it), since this is BIG concern with j2me.
Originally posted by a sanjuan:
i read recently a survey that showed many corporate users of WAP enabled phones had stopped using the wireless apps after an initial interest. the problem was more physical than the actual app themselves...it is just too darn hard to use the phones for anything beyond the simplest apps because of the small screen size (squinting at large amounts of text ain't easy) and the inordinate amount of work necessary just to write a short sentence. so such hybrids as the RIM BLackberry and the Treo (?) and Nokia Communicator might have a better time in the corprate environment.
Originally posted by Ravenne Barns:
Gentlemen:
I have had an opportunity to use a little of the J2ME and must say I am very interested in what it has to offer. My question for you is when I was using the J2ME I found that on some of the emulator that I got an error, and I was wondering if there is any "an all purpose" emulator that I could use or if this will have a fix soon?
The emulators I am using are with the toolkit from sun.
I haven't seen your book yet but I will be looking for it now.
Thank You
Ravenne
Originally posted by Jason Long:
I've been perusing the pages listed on the publisher's site, and came away impressed. Congratulations on your work!
Originally posted by Gustavo Adolpho Bonesso:
Hi, All !
Somebody knows some resources about Location Based Services implemented using J2ME tecnology ?
Originally posted by chris coleman:
Congratulations to the authors, and one question for them:
Do you agree with me strongly, that J2ME will flourish and rise in importance, because of the huge leaps in flash memory technology, best used in cellular and mobile devices, this last month by IBM?
Originally posted by Steffy Sing:
David Hemphill and James White,
Welcome to the Ranch.
I have two questions:
1)How is this book different from the books currently available in the market?
2)Can someone show me the table of contents? I can't find it from Amazon.com.
Thank You.
[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: Steffy Sing ]