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
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