John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/30 Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]>: > >> Target platform would be any device supporting JavaME. > > Why JavaME exactly?
Well, perhaps because it is by far the most wide spread mobile programming language?! It is only really Apple with the iPhone who once again decided to be incompatible with everyone else (and admittedly now Android too). Pretty much every other phone including windows Mobile phones and Blackberry have some support for JavaME although the quality of the JVM widley varies. > > It's kind of getting long in the tooth compared to JVMs running on > modern smart phones.... Yes, it has its issues, no doubt, and so it is good to see some evolution in this space, but JavaME pretty much remains the only option if you don't won't to rewrite large parts of your code for each available phone. It is by now also a fairly capable language that is perfectly suitable for applications like these. The mayor issue really is the stupid security modell and DRM stuff but that is not that much better elsewhere either. > > Not to mention smart phones usually have a soft or hard keyboard, > rather than twiddling about with 12 keys to type things out.... Actually, you can do all that perfectly fine with JavaME. It has support for full keyboards and touch screen handling. Kai > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
