[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Is it possible that migrate J2me to Nokia 770?

[From: Antonio Gomes]

Hi,

well, regardless these SUN bureaucratic/formal issues,  you could also
ask yourself about how would be the look of j2me apps running on such
a device. I mean, would  them fit in properly on this pretty large
screen. In general, j2me aims cel phones (PDAs have a bigger
screen/resolution support, I know), but its available-free-sdk widgets
are not the at rich. So, I'd suggest you , at least, porting an
proprietary j2me, with customized widgets for the 77'device/maEmo, but
in this case, Nokia'd have to 'step in' on the process ...

Anyhow, you're free for trying porting j2me to maEmo environment
(distributing it is another question), in my concernigs, though, it's
a as such a rich Toolkit as another ones already sucessfully ported so
far (like gtk+ itseft, XUL, and some bindings as PyGTK, Gtkmm, and so
on) ...

Btw, talking about game development on j2me, ok. there are some good
ones. Just don't forget about performance issues, since it's an
interpreted language.

regards

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--Antonio Gomes
INdT (Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia / Nokia Technology Institute)
http:// tonikitoo (dot) blogspot (dot) com


> > I guess you'd need to ask Sun - j2me is proprietary, right?
>
> Almost ;)
> The problem with Java in general is that Sun gives you the sourcecode of
> the reference implementation which already includes ARM support but it
> does not allow to redistribute any modified source or binary. The only
> official exception from that rule is Blackdown but they do not have J2ME
> at all.
> Or of course you can go the certification path but that will cost you
> some $.
>
> So, feasable, yes.
> It has even been done, yes.
> A good way to go? No.
>
> Probably look into Mono instead?
>
> >
> >>Hello!
> >>
> >>      Since Motorola E680 a is linux based smart phone and it supported j2me,
> >>so I think that nokia 770 can support j2me too , but How can I migrate
> >>j2me to Nokia 770 ?