Re: Phone support for CDC/AGUI

> I've been looking at developing with the Netbeans
> Mobility pack for CDC, and it seems to only support
> AGUI.

So you don't want AGUI support?

> My current target devices are iPAQs running Jbed
> CDC/PP (which I currently have running J9 with stuff
> written on CLDC/MIDP). I know there are SDKs that you
> can integrate into Netbeans for Sony Ericsson CDC
> phones and Nokia Series 80, but is there not a
> generic(ish) one like the AGUI kit but for PP?

Now you are asking for AGUI support? What is it what you want? And are you claiming Jbed supports AGUI? That would be new to me.

In general, the GUI situation for ME is extremely confusing and fragmented. It starts with the bunch of oh-so-helpful DC and profile definitions and continues with a bunch of optional packages to make bad things worse. And this indeed limits the target audience for an application. Forget about "Write once, run anywhere" .

AGUI is one of the above mentioned optional package (unless Sun has changed something and it is now mandatory these days in some ME version). My understanding is that Sun is trying to push it, but that vendors look e.g. at things like eSWT (which has no JCP/JSR blessing) and AGUI takeup is slow, if at all. Take this statement with a grain of salt. A lot about ME is politics and big business, and happens behind closed curtains. Maybe we see a boatload of devices with AGUI support next holiday season, or maybe we don't.

If you have PP, then you have AWT with limitations. It depends on your application if AWT is suitable for your purpose. If you need more ("rich interfaces", to throw the  latest buzzword around ...), then you could consider classic Thinlet on top of AWT http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/home.html .  Thinlet hasn't seen an update in the last two years. A new version is promised since, but didn't appear. And unfortunately it uses XML to describe GUIs. But it is small. Watch out for the Thinlet license and check if you can live with it before starting to write code.
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