Customer Reviews

Instant Wireless Java with J2ME

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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

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.

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.