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Wireless Java Programming with J2ME

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This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study on the next-generation wireless programming with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). The authors introduce this cutting-edge wireless technology with superb knowledge and professional insight. Chapters are well structured, tightly connected and rich in practical sample codes, that simply makes understanding highly effective.

Besides covering all the major J2ME topics, such as CLDC(Connected Limited Device Configuration) and Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), this book also explains, in great details, other wireless developments, including "Using XML in Wireless Applications" (Chapter 10) and "NTT DoCoMo's Java for i-Mode in Japan" (Appendix D). Knowing these current industry trends would greatly empower readers with added advantages in this competitive wireless market.

Being the first-prize winner in the 2000 Motorola J2ME Virtual Developer Contest, Yu Feng, one of the authors, dedicates the entire Chapter 9 for his award-winning m-commerce application. This recognition on his quality wireless production gives a strong promise to the high usability and the world-class standard of this book.

Overall, this is a great book for beginners to have a quick jump-start into writing the first wireless Java application. It is also a handy reference text for professional programmers. I highly recommend this book to all those developers who want to build the next-generation wireless applications using J2ME.

Great reference book with good examples and information on J2ME programming. The UI, RMS, and networking material is very useful. I refer to the book often and find the detailed information extremely useful and comprehensive. I would recommend it for any serious J2ME developer.

Not many books are yet available on J2ME. For this reason alone, this text is decent. However, much of the text is simple embellishement of the limited J2ME MIDP documentation available from Sun. The examples are decent but sometimes confusing -- I typed in several and experienced minor problems with a few. My basic issue with the text is the lack of explaination. Code examples are good, but explaination is better and the topics are only modestly explained.

Overall, a decent first book on this issue but nothing spectacular.

If you are a experienced Java Developer, this book surely help you to develop your own J2ME project even you have no idea on J2ME is. Although this released a bit early so that it has not cover the MIDP for Palm OS. But with the exmaple insides, I think you should hand over J2ME smoothly within a month

A real good book. It introduces with basic wireless device technological architecture and then explains how J2ME can be used to develop wireless applications. A useful reference book if you want to start learning wireless programming.

Recently I had a need to come up a prototype in a short period of time. I started with no idea about J2ME programming. This book helped me a lot. It gives very detailed information on how to get start.

The examples in the book are excellent. Some examples about Networking, XML and SyncML, addresses the real problems every developer would encounter.

Considering the book comes so early, its coverage on J2ME is pretty decent. High level introduction of J2ME is not very comprehensive but very precise and informative.

Normally I would rank this book as average, however compared to the books that are out there on J2ME technologies this book is good. The high level overview is informative and I liked that it drilled into the details of J2ME application development. The examples are and simple and clear. Overall, a good book for intermediate java programmers looking to get their foot into the J2ME door.

An excellent book for experienced Java developers who want to quickly learn J2ME. It covers almost everything you need to know about J2ME MIDP programming. This book is very comprehesive and contains a lot of valuable infomation. The code examples are useful and clearly illustrate the points made. I highly recommend this book if you want to get into writing J2ME applications.

I'm used to be a heavy buyer of Technology related books, and I shops for books everyweek. Usually, I will run through a book quickly before making decision on buying the book. This title caught me eyes when I was shopping for J2ME books, and it happened to be one of the earliest J2ME books in a local book store. Without thinking and browsing through the book, and I bought it. The author has won Motorola award and may be very good in practising in the J2ME field. However, they are poor in expressing and representing it. The organization of the contents are poorly done, looks like writing notes while they are reading a book or technical specification. I'm not denying their development skills in J2ME, but the author needs to have skills in organizing contents and expressing facts and concepts.

An otherwise decent book rendered completly frustrating by lack of attention to deatails. For a seasoned programmer, the most difficult thing about learning a new technology is the environment issues. This book fails to point out that key J2ME zip and jar files need to go into your classpath before the examples work. The reason you buy a book like this is to not have to learn this kind of detail on your own. Unfortunately, this book ignores many such details.