Timothy Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15-9-2003 12:54:41: > >On 15/9/03 10:34 am, "Colin Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Bart >> >>> I'm curious what your thoughs are on this project. What language >>> should I use, what development packages are available, what packages >>> work well? Are there existing clients that I've used (I've found a >>> few but knowing the Jabber community I've probably missed a couple). >>> Other thoughts? >> >> I would say Java is the way forward. There is a Java api (Symbian >> uses a trimmed down version of java) development package available >> for the P800, and plenty of Java Jabber Api's around (I use muse, >> which is a bit big for a phone client, but can be trimmed down). The >> combination of these api's should give you everything you need to >> create your client, including camera and GPRS support. >> > >Beware of P800! I am developing apps on P800 and the Java support is >pitiful at this time. No camera, no SMS, no BIO, no MMS, no Bluetooth. >Basically games only, and "game over, man" if you want to do much else. > It is, basically, stripped down MIDP 1.0 and some ruins of > PersonalJava >loitering around.
You can do JNI with those "reminants" of PersonalJava though, so if you do your best you can do everything in Java what you *can* do in Java, and the rest in native C++. For a beginner in Java *and* C(++) JNI can be a little bit difficult maybe.. but doing JNI on the UIQ emulator. I'd rather try programming it in brainfuck... -- Tijl Houtbeckers Software Engineer @ Splendo The Netherlands _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
