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J2ME Polish 1.0

Posted by michael on from the polished-to-a-shine dept.

Reader enough2000 writes "After nine months of intense programming, J2ME Polish 1.0 has now been released on j2mepolish.org. J2ME Polish is a GPL'd suite of tools, of which every one meets a definite need of J2ME developers. It includes an Ant based build tool, an integrated device database, an UI which can be designed using simple CSS-textfiles, a game-engine and a logging framework. I'm the developer of this suite and would like to know your opinions and suggestions for future versions."

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  1. why Polish? by LeninZhiv · · Score: 4, Funny

    No offense to the Poles (who in my opinion make the world's best sausage), but wouldn't more widely spoken languages like French, Spanish, or Russian address a more urgent need than Polish? Sure, the more i18n that gets done the better, but I don't see why most slashdot readers should be particularly interested in this...

    (clicks on link)

    oh, wait a minute...

    1. Re:why Polish? by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Informative

      the name isn't the best
      (hell, it fooled me at first) imho but it does work, it's about making j2me apps look better and about helping you when building for multiple different platforms(preprocessor kinda stuff, some phones have different capabilities and extensions).

      there's game I coded using the gameapi in midp2 that now works somewhat in midp1 phones as well when build by using j2me polish(the game itself was done for an upcoming article and the j2me polish author fixed a lot of stuff in the gameapi implementation so now it's playable on midp1 phones with minor graphical glitches).

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  2. As in TurtleWax by tod_miller · · Score: 2, Interesting

    J2ME Polish, as in wax on, wax off...

    I will definately look into this, a game engine? CSS layouts? *droooll* oh man this is awesome!

    For practical people who preffer extraction and reporting languages, please let us mere mortals bask in this little triumph.

    In 2 years Java on a mobile device will be so awesome! Hurrah for Java!

    OK, back to superwaba hacking.... :-/

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    1. Re:As in TurtleWax by enough2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback. The GUI of J2ME Polish works on almost any J2ME capable device, so it usually does not need to be ported. The build tools of J2ME Polish (preprocessing, compiling, preverification, obfuscation, packaging, etc) are device independent anyhow. Best regards - Robert

  3. Re:The state of mobile development by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    nokia communicators and uiq phones(p800/p900) support personal java.

    the state of the things as it is now is that you don't usually have the liberty of choosing what tools to use since you're not in liberty to choose the target device.. so for anything that can be done in j2me midp, using j2me is best if you want somebody to be able to use the app.

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  4. Re:ewesoft by RevAaron · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pfft. What liars! On their site they say:

    "The Most Portable VM Available"

    Pfft. Every platform listed is supported by Squeak Smalltalk, with the exception of the JVM itself, though it makes up for it by supporting many other platforms, including Psion/EPOC32.

    Sorry, not really relevant, but I hate it when developers make claims that aren't true. :P

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  5. Bad license choice. by MisterFancypants · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There is a good reason why most projects of this type choose the LGPL as their license. Using the GPL will pretty much ensure that this project won't get used by any serious third parties.

    And before anyone flames me, yeah, I realize the guy is free to license his code under whatever license he chooses and I can choose to not use it. In either case, it doesn't really matter to me since I don't program in Java. I'm just noting that he made a somewhat odd choice.

    1. Re:Bad license choice. by enough2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Hi MisterFancypants, the GPL ensures the freedom of the project, and also this project is licensed commercially as well (like Trolltech's QT for example).

  6. Re:The state of mobile development by enough2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    To the first J2ME "mode" you mention: "you decide what you want, but have not idea what it will look like":

    This "mode" is actually what the J2ME Polish GUI is changing. You can use the normal Form, List, StringItem etc but you can design this stuff with CSS. Which I think is kinda cool. Also it has a "fallback" mode for devices which are not powerful enough to support the GUI - in that case it just uses the native GUI of the device. Voila!

    You can find more info about this stuff at the introduction.

  7. For more info about J2ME.... by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot of developers are confused about J2ME, I have some overviews on my site at www.ericgiguere.com/j2me that should clear things up somewhat, including my handy-dandy J2ME acronym list.

    Things are getting more exciting in the J2ME world, though I'd like to see more devices supporting the Personal Profile come on the market. It's interesting what people can do with today's devices and the quite-limited-in-comparison Mobile Information Device Profile.

    Eric