Re: j2me

Eddie Peloke wrote:
> Is anyone here doing much work with the J2ME?  For some reason it has
> interested me lately as there is a small app I want to try to create. 
> Anyone have suggestions for a good J2ME book?

We do quite a bit of it. Eclipse and Netbeans both have good integration 
with emulators, and Blackberry provides their own IDE for free (looks 
Eclipse based). Netbeans allows you to compile the code and run it in an 
emulator very easily from the IDE as part of their mobility pack. Nokia 
and Motorola provide emulators as well.

Most of the J2ME game books I've seen give you a solid introduction to 
Midlets and the such.

It's a very neat environment, though so much nicer if you can work 
strictly with Blackberrys.

All in all working with it is fairly straightforward. Especially if you 
are just doing form based apps. You do run into the issue of entering 
text, which can be difficult for users.

Some of the most fascinating stuff is happening with Bluetooth 
integration. We've got devices that pair securely to the phones that a 
user can swipe a credit car through, have the phone process it over SSL 
and print a receipt on the printer. All over bluetooth. Cool stuff.

We had a presentation on it several months back here at CharJUG. The 
powerpoint is on our site. http://www.charjug.org/presentations.jsp

Good luck with it, and I'll add some links tomorrow when I can flip 
through the books in our library,

Cory