Pro J2ME Polish: Open Source Wireless Java Tools Suite

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 472 pages
• Published by: Apress July 28, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1590595033
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590595039
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description


Pro J2ME Polish: Open Source Wireless Java Tools Suite is written for wireless and other mobile Java programmers who want to "polish" their efficiency and acquire in-depth knowledge about programming real-world J2ME applications. It also uncovers all common device limitations and quirks, and explains how these can be circumvented.

The book describes the Open Source tools collection, "J2ME Polish," and shows how the tools can be used for creating professional J2ME applications. Building multiple devices and multiple locales is easy after studying this book. Author Robert Virkus offers tips about the more hidden features of J2ME Polish, like the logging framework, the preprocessor, and the game-engine. You will learn to polish up your applications with the powerful GUI that enables you to design standard J2ME applications with simple CSS text files. Youll also learn to write portable, fast applications while using all available features on your target devices simultaneously.

About The Author
Robert Virkus is the technical and managing architect and programmer for the open source project J2ME Polish. He is an internationally recognized J2ME expert and is a member of Mobile Solutions Group, Bremen, Germany.

Reader Reviews
When you first learn J2ME, you learn about this fantasy world where all devices follow the J2ME specification to a tee. But in the real world, because of the interpretive nature of the specifications, no two devices really implement the specification exactly the same. So this requires either targeting a particular device or have many versions of you app to run on different devices. Man what a pain. But that is where J2ME Polish comes to the rescue. J2ME Polish provides pre-compiler directives to allow you to write code such that J2ME Polish's build script can automatically create different versions for you on the fly however you want. There is a lot more to J2ME Polish than just that, but this is a book review. So let's get to that review. Well, first Robert Virkus is J2ME Polish, well he is the architect and lead programmer for J2ME Polish. Who better to write a book about it? Consider this book the hard copy of the manual for J2ME Polish. If you are going to use J2ME Polish, then this book is a must. It is the reference book that you will need to find anything you need to know about J2ME Polish. Now, it isn't really a read all the way through the book and you can be J2ME Polish expert. You really need to be actually using J2ME Polish at the time, to better grasp what is being explained. The book can be hard to understand, not because of the writing, but because J2ME Polish is feature rich and there is lots to learn. I highly recommend using J2ME Polish and buying this book if you will be developing for more than one device, and also to get their cool looking GUI screens, rather than MIDP 2.0 High Level GUIs.