Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "The (Java) MIDlet Bible"

Great to read your

Great to read your articles. Would like to know if there still exists any pre-WM5 (e.g. ppc 2002) midlet managers nowadays. I recalled that there was one bundled in IBM's Websphere Studio Device Designer but it has no longer been available in IBM's official site nor your sharing location at the url of http://www.winmobiletech.com/sekalai...IDP-PPC2k2.rar. Grateful if you could share it again.

Diego, going for J2ME has both pros and cons.

Pros:

1. You can deploy your app on any mobile platform - even feature phones, iPhone (in the future), Blackberries, Nokias, everything.

2. if you already know Java, then, J2ME and the class library will be far easier / far more familiar to you than C# and CF.

Cons:

1. Having to be run from under a MIDlet Manager, which isn't necessarily what Ordinary Joes want. Unless they create direct links to the MIDlets, of course - you should go this way, should you want to go the J2ME way.

2. as you've mentioned, the plethora of (installed/ deployed / OEM) MM's. This is not that big a problem, though - you can ask all your users to switch to Jbed.

tobbie, thanks, reposted your message HERE and ALL the cross-posts of the MIDlet Bible; hope someone finds a solution.

Brian, see the Handango purchase and the trial download links in the main chart.

Thanks for the report; strange older Nokia KVM's had no problems with textboxes, while the one in Nokia N95 is certainly restricted, based on my tests.

bub181, I've tested this with both TAO and Jbed: no caching takes place with the current (OM4 beta 3) release.

(BTW, beta 3 was released a day ago; I'll promptly review it.)

1. Currently, I don't know of a retail version of Esmertec's products, only OEM ones. I've asked them several times to tell me which of the Handano distros has the latest Jbed (Jeodek), but I haven't received any real answer. This may be the reason for their not (at least publicly) publishing any release notes.

2. The textbox size problem seems to be an issue with all KVM's (with different size restrictions) under both Opera Mini 4 b2 and Opera Mini Mod 2.05, which is based on a far older Opera Mini distro. This even includes Nokia's KVM. I'll make some extensive research in order to find out what this is caused by.

Are you sure you have never had any text size problems with TAO? It too failed my textarea tests - again, along with ALL the other WM and Symbian KVM'S.

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "The (Java) MIDlet Bible"

Great to read your

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "The (Java) MIDlet Bible"