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Summary: Sorry excuse for a book
Review: Look elsewhere if you want to program for the PalmOS with Java. This book mainly talks about the history of Java and why you may not want to use J2ME. I'm sending my copy back for a refund.
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Summary: Not for students!!!!!!!
Review: My intentions were for this book to help with a class project at the University of Florida. My suggestion is to visit Sun's tutorials.
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Summary: Good for beginners.
Review: The book provides a very good overview for those that are just beginning to do this sort of work. However, the details that are provided are sketchy at best and can easily be pulled from free external sources like the J2ME specification or the installation files from various J2ME Tools. So if you're a seasoned java programmer ... stay away from this book and stick to doing research on you're on. There really is no insightly information that justify the cost of the book. On the other hand ... if you are new to Java and to the J2ME/Embedded programming space then this book is for you.
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Summary: Good for beginners.
Review: The book provides a very good overview for those that are just beginning to do this sort of work. However, the details that are provided are sketchy at best and can easily be pulled from free external sources like the J2ME specification or the installation files from various J2ME Tools. So if you're a seasoned java programmer ... stay away from this book and stick to doing research on you're on. There really is no insightly information that justify the cost of the book. On the other hand ... if you are new to Java and to the J2ME/Embedded programming space then this book is for you.
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Summary: Good overview but not for Professionals
Review: The title is misleading. The book is more for a manager than for professional developers. You can get most of the stuff in the book from Sun's web site.
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Summary: Not for developers
Review: This book doesn't deliver the promise it has in its title. This book is more for people who wants a brief overview of J2ME. It is not for developers. it doesn't even show one complete example of how to write, compile, and run a MIDlet. The price is too high for such a book. But I guess that is the name of the game -- who is first in the market!
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Summary: Excellent Presentation of the J2ME Space
Review: This book is an excellent presentation of the current world of Java in embedded devices with enough detail to get someone started but also not too much detail to get a reader confused. It provides a great mixture of background and hands-on information. In a very structured way, the author shows the problem space of resource restricted operating environments and provides some guidance on when employing Java in a device makes sense and how to tune and address performance issues. After an overview of the J2ME specifications, three actual implementations of the CLDC/MIDP are discussed in detail (Sun's KVM for Palm, Motorola's J2ME SDK and RIM's Blackberry JDE). All of those implementations are included on the CD, which allows for some really good hands-on training. As an additional goodie the book also discusses Waba. Generally, the tone of writing is very friendly making this book a very pleasant reading experience. The bottom line is, that this is an excellent introductory book to J2ME for people who know some Java already! I definitely cannot agree with some other reviewer's perspective in regards to the author just having collected the Tech Tips he wrote into a book. However, this book together with the Tech Tips make a great combination to jump start J2ME development.
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Summary: Great introductory book...
Review: This book is an excellent presentation of the current world of Java in embedded devices with enough detail to get someone started but also not too much of detail to get people confused. It provides a good overview of the problem space of resource restricted operating environments and performance tuning. In a very structured way, the book describes the J2ME specifications and discusses CLDC implementations from Sun (KVM for Palm), Motorola and RIM. As a little goodie the author also describes Waba. Generally, the tone of the book is very light making it a very pleasant reading experience. As a bottom line, this book is extremely recommendable for everybody with Java experience who is new to the embedded Java space!
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Summary: Not the book for serious developers.
Review: This book was horrible. The author simply copied everything off of Suns Java Developer connection and put it in this book. This information is freely available at the Sun JDC. Save yourself time and money, do not bother with this book. I have already returned my copy.
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Summary: Java 2 Micro Edition : Professional Developer's Guide
Review: This is a great (must have) introduction to J2ME and small devices. Programming small devices requires understanding the restrictions and limitations associated w/ such small devices and this book walks the reader thru such issues and programming techniques. The book also walks to reader thru the background information to put things in perspective, J2ME specs. (MIDP, CLDC, other) and available SDKs. It provides source code as well (and a CD). Their is a companion web-site as well. In short, it is a good overview, introduction and reference. From this perspective I give it 5 stars. After reading this book, the reader will be familiar w/ J2ME in general, its profiles, popular devices and SDKs and related programming techniques. I recommend this book to anyone who wants/needs to get up to speed about J2ME.
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