Java Development on PDAs
Building Applications for PocketPC and Palm Devices
Welcome to the official web site for Java Development on PDAs, the technical hands-on book that covers developing Java applications for the PocketPC and Palm devices.
Succinct and practical, Java Development on PDAs focuses on real-world programming tasks with extensive code examples and an end-to-end full-scale PDA application demonstrating techniques for integrating devices with the enterprise via web services for an enterprise environment.
This no-waffle book is written for Java developers who want to write Java applications for the PocketPC or Palm.
The book includes explanations of:
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•How Java 2 Micro Edition is organised.
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•The differences between Personal Profile, PersonalJava, the Mobile Information Device Profile, and JDK 1.3.
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•Which profiles run on different PDAs.
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•How to set up a development environment using free tools.
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•Considerations to keep in mind when designing PDA applications.
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•How to store information on the PDA.
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•PDA user interfaces.
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•Accessing information over a network.
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•How to build a SOAP web service, and access it from a Palm or PocketPC Java application.
Note from the author
Java Development on PDAs was published in 2003. Since then, much has changed for J2ME, Palm, and the PocketPC. Many of the tool downloads and versions mentioned in the book are no longer available from those sources, but they are available right here on the Resources page.