Re: j2me
Eddie Peloke <[email protected]>
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Thanks Cory. I read somewhere last night about the NetBeans J2ME integration. I use eclipse so I'll try that out as well. Thanks also for the link to the powerpoint. Not sure why I have the J2ME itch...just sounds cool all of a sudden. On 8/30/05, Cory Foy <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Juglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org