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Summary: Finally, a book that goes beyond the APIs
Review: This is one of the few rare J2ME books that goes beyond the basics. Most J2ME books start and stop at being a tutorial for the various J2ME profiles. This book assumes you already are introduced to the basic J2ME APIs and are trying to actually use J2ME to develop enterprise applications.I think the greatest value of this book is in clearly presenting how to architect complete J2ME applications, from the client to the back end server. However, it's not a pure architecture book. All the details are backed up by code. If you want to see how real world J2ME applications are designed and written, buy this book.
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Summary: Advanced J2ME
Review: Unlike many J2ME books that focus on CLDC/MIDP, this book also covers CDC/Personal Profile and J2ME support for high-end (32Mb+) PDA devices. I've been using IBM's pervasive tools to develop Java for PocketPC. In this book, Michael Yuan has answered questions I've had about IBM's SMF that IBM consultants could not answer. As of December, 2003, the content in this book appears to be all up-to-date. Mobile computing is a fast changing world and having a current reference is very valuable to me. One topic that Yuan has omitted: SWT. I develop rich GUI applications for PocketPC devices where AWT and SWT are the only two choices for UI components. I'm not a big fan of SWT, but given the choice I usually pick SWT over AWT simply because the SWT pallet is much richer than AWT.
Rating:
Summary: Advanced J2ME
Review: Unlike many J2ME books that focus on CLDC/MIDP, this book also covers CDC/Personal Profile and J2ME support for high-end (32Mb+) PDA devices. I've been using IBM's pervasive tools to develop Java for PocketPC. In this book, Michael Yuan has answered questions I've had about IBM's SMF that IBM consultants could not answer. As of December, 2003, the content in this book appears to be all up-to-date. Mobile computing is a fast changing world and having a current reference is very valuable to me. One topic that Yuan has omitted: SWT. I develop rich GUI applications for PocketPC devices where AWT and SWT are the only two choices for UI components. I'm not a big fan of SWT, but given the choice I usually pick SWT over AWT simply because the SWT pallet is much richer than AWT.
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