Instant Wireless Java with J2ME [Paperback]

Paul Tremblett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072191759 | ISBN-13: 978-0072191752 | Publication Date: February 4, 2002

This text covers developing wireless Java applications with J2ME and Sun's Java 2 Micro Edition for small devises. It covers key J2ME components, including the CLDC (connected limited device configuration) and MIDP (mobile information device profile) and focuses on output to the Palm Pilot, Visor, pagers and cell phones. The book presents a wide range of applications - including presenting dynamic data, controlling user input, handling graphics and querying servers. The CD includes all the code from the book, with ready to run and "On the CD" icons to help guide the reader to applications on the disc. It also addresses key issues of security, networking and compatibility with J2SE.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Wireless designers face the challenge of achieving their vision in the limited environment offered by devices like cell phones and PDAs. Recommended for all public libraries, Usability Handbook modifies advice found in web usability guides (see Computer Media, LJ 5/1/02) for the wireless environment, focusing on how wireless devices work and how best to design for them. Chapter summaries and discussion questions aid understanding; the CD-ROM includes WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) emulators and templates. Larger public libraries can consider the next two guides: for beginning wireless developers, WAP 2.0 discusses developing with WAP, then moves on to more advanced topics such as WMLScript, ASP, and connecting to databases. For more advanced developers, Wireless Java teaches wireless application development through step-by-step examples. The CD-ROM contains sample code.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

The Ultimate Collection of Ready-to-Use Code and Expert Techniques

Develop state-of-the art wireless applications with J2ME using this thorough and useful resource. Learn to build a wide range of scalable applications that can be delivered directly to handheld and mobile devices. Once you've mastered the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), you can add enhancements to your applications using the Java Wireless toolkit. Covering security, J2SE compatibility, and networking, Instant Wireless Java with J2ME will show you how to create and deploy real-world wireless applications to J2ME-enabled devices.

Key Topics Covered:

• Compiling and executing MIDP code
• User Interface classes
• CommandListener interface
• Associating icons with MIDlets
• User notification from MID
• Creating simple and multiple tickers
• J2ME wireless toolkit and Ktoolbar
• RecordStore class
• Networking
• Interfacing with enterprise applications

• On the value-packed CD-ROM:
• All source from the book
• Ready-to-use wireless applications

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (February 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072191759
• ISBN-13: 978-0072191752
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,414,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Choice, October 7, 2003

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Michael Pucciarelli (Rockville, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Wireless Java with J2ME (Paperback)

I really liked reading this book. I thought it was well written. The author uses good examples. It is easy to read. The code will challenge you. The code starts out simple, and then it gets more complicated. He covers all the major parts really well. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn J2ME. Worth the investment. Extensive knowledge of JAVA will help with this book and learn J2ME.

Michael

4.0 out of 5 stars Well Written, July 6, 2003

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C. Hoffmeyer "cchoffme" (Lansing, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Wireless Java with J2ME (Paperback)

This book can be best described as a "learn by example", and does rather well in that regard. I had a very simple midlet up and running in the emulator within minutes. If you know Java already, this book is wonderful. If not, you may want to pick up a copy of "Java in a Nutshell" to go along with this one. It will not teach you how to program Java by any means.

The only things that disapointed me about this book was that the included CD-ROM does not include anything /really/ useful. It has the examples from the book, but does not include the referenced tools (such as Forte, Apache, or KToolBox). As all of these applications are free, they could have easily been included on disk. Instead the reader must spend a bit of time downloading materials on the internet. Also, it doesn't tell you how to get the Midlets into your phone. I struggled with that for a couple days, frustrated because it worked fine in the emulator.

The book is well worth its price.

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1.0 out of 5 stars incomplete CD, November 27, 2005

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Robert A. Roomberg - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Wireless Java with J2ME (Paperback)

Every time I bought a JAVA book I was told I needed some form of new SDK to get the new features that are covered by the book.
These developer kits were always distributed on CD with the new fifty dollar book. BUT, not this time. This book comes with a source code CD and tells you to GO TO SUN for everything else.
The SUN links are dead and good luck finding what you need.
The author also states that you can get Linux versions but
forget about linux.... getting a windows version first is impossible. I bought this book as a gift to have someone jump right into JAVA on cell phones but this isn't going to be a jump right in to anything. I am thoroughly disgusted with this tease.
We buy these books to learn something new and get stopped dead in tracks when the book refers to online download resources that
don't exist anymore or worse, cost more than the book.
Perhaps I am too stupid to sift through the 500 versions of SUN releases and upgrades that SUN changes the names and acronyms
without leaving versions intact to download.
I'd expect that from a 10 year old book, not a book copyrighted 2002.
Perhaps I am asking for too much when I buy a $50 book and expect it to stand on its own and contain a CD of useful content that matches the instruction in the book. I want a book to match
industry standards and last I heard, the web runs on unix so I'd expect the book's CD to have Linux SDK also.
This book looks like it would be the one that tells me how to put
JAVA apps on my cell phone. If the author ever gets around to it,perhaps he will tell us how to do that too. I wouldn't be writing such a scathing review if the author was reachable but I have nothing but bounced emails from Paul Tremblett. I give this book ONE star because without a useful companion CD, the book is worthless.