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Running Twitter4J on phoneMe Advanced

Posted by brunogh on November 22, 2010 at 8:46 AM PST

Today we are gonna talk about how to create a Java application for Digital TV that integrates with Twitter. Note that the demo will be based on the basic Java DTV stack, without any specific middleware definitions, so feel free to add UI later.

phoneMe Advanced is the basic stack (CDC/FP/PBP) for DTV middlewares. I started looking at a Twitter library in Java and found an interesting one called Twitter4J (http://twitter4j.org). Twitter4J has a target compilation for Java 1.4, which is needed, because phoneME Advanced is a subset of Java 1.4 (does not have some packages and methods) compatible with the language syntax. Most of the others libraries were only for 1.5.

  1. Download phoneME Advanced (http://phoneme.dev.java.net) and compile it (http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/PhoneMEAdvanced).
  2. Create a new Java Project and add basis.jar and btclasses.zip in the classpath (it will be generated after compiling phoneMe Advanced). Also remove the default JRE at Java Build Path->Libraries, if you are using Eclipse.
  3. Download Twitter4J (http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html) and add it to the project classpath.

Create a TwitterXlet.java class like above. Xlet is an interface that is needed to be implement, so AMS (Application Management System) can run it in a sandbox.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.microedition.xlet.Xlet;
import javax.microedition.xlet.XletContext;
import javax.microedition.xlet.XletStateChangeException;
import twitter4j.Query;
import twitter4j.QueryResult;
import twitter4j.Tweet;
import twitter4j.Twitter;
import twitter4j.TwitterException;
import twitter4j.TwitterFactory;
import com.sun.xlet.XletContextImpl;

public class TwitterXlet implements Xlet {

    protected XletContextImpl context;

    public void initXlet(XletContext xletContext)
            throws XletStateChangeException {
        context = (XletContextImpl) xletContext;
    }

    public void destroyXlet(boolean unconditional)
            throws XletStateChangeException {
    }

    public void pauseXlet() {
    }

    public void startXlet() throws XletStateChangeException {
        List result = this.search("#java");
        for (int i = 0; i < result.size(); i++) {
            Tweet tweet = (Tweet) result.get(i);
            System.out.println(tweet.getFromUser() + " " + tweet.getText());
        }
    }

    public List search(String s) {
        List toReturn = new ArrayList();
        try {
            Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
            Query query = new Query(s);
            QueryResult result;
            result = twitter.search(query);
            toReturn = result.getTweets();
        } catch (TwitterException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return toReturn;
    }
}

Create a twitter.policy file that will be passed to override on execution for test purposes:
grant {
    permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

Now, note that you will need to add xerces.jar (http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi) into the execution classpath when invokes the XletRunner to run the TwitterXlet. This is because Twitter4J depends on org.xml.sax package and the stack does not provide implementation.

To run the Xlet application:
${PHONEME_PATH}/cdc/build/linux-x86-generic/bin/cvm -Djava.security.policy=${POLICY_PATH}/twitter.policy com.sun.xlet.XletRunner -name TwitterXlet -path ${APP_PATH}/bin:${APP_PATH}/lib/twitter4j-core-2.1.6.jar:${APP_PATH}/lib/xerces.jar

Output (a lot fo people from all around the world is quoting Java!):
@@XletRunner starting Xlet TwitterXlet
[Mon Nov 22 12:59:10 GMT-03:00 2010]Will use class twitter4j.internal.logging.StdOutLoggerFactory as logging factory.
[Mon Nov 22 12:59:10 GMT-03:00 2010]Will use twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientImpl as HttpClient implementation.
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ps: Thanks to Yusuke Yamamoto for the support in the users list. Great project!


Have fun!
Bruno Ghisi


 

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