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Editor's Daily BlogTonight We RidePosted by invalidname on August 11, 2006 at 08:21 AM | Comments (5)How far does Java ME get you? So, I discovered that I'm now using my mobile phone enough to move from a pre-paid plan to a regular subscription, and while I was doing so, I tacked on the data service for five dollars a month to see what I could do with it. Mostly, of course, I've been pulling down MIDI files to assign to various callers -- my wife gets Dave Brubeck's Blue Rondo A La Turk [MIDI, 52 KB], which was the first dance at our wedding, while random and potentially hostile callers get battle music from Final Fantasy VII [MIDI, 32 KB]. But I did remember a while back when Google rolled out Google Maps as a Java ME application, Google Maps Mobile, and I got excited. "Hey! Useful Java ME application! I should go check this out!" Well, after trying all morning, I can't say I've gotten it to work. The page identified my Motorola V300 and the jar downloaded and installed (albeit with a warning about potentially limited functionality), but it can't seem to load the terms and conditions, which might mean that it has no network access, which kind of makes the whole exercise pointless. So, my whole enthusiasm about ME from two paragraphs ago? Back in the "good ideas gone wrong" drawer. Thanks for playing. Curiously, it was before this whole misadventure that I posted the new java.net Poll question, which asks "Have you ever used a Java ME app that wasn't a game?" Cast your vote on the front page, and then visit the results page for results and discussion. In Java Today, Peter Ahé's blog HotSpot and other compilers considers the relationship of HotSpot and javac-generated code: "In a comment on a previous blog entry, Damon Hart-Davis asked if HotSpot is better with classes generated by javac and if it is true that some static transformations (optimization or obfuscation) can impact the performance of your application? The short answer is that HotSpot is not targeted to javac code but some static transformation can adversely affect the performance of your application. I'll give some more details below." The eighty-ninth issue of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is online, featuring tool news from around the web, announcements of Simple Log's version 2.0 release and the AdvanceNative2ASCIITool project's graduation from the Tools Community incubator, and a Tool Tip on adding new roles to your project. Calvin Austin looks at Java's would-be rival in C#: Is the Party Over? "Given that C# hasn't necessarily been the instant success that many thought it would have been, it hasn't been for lack of trying. The MSDN site has adopted many of the best practices used on other developer Web sites. [...] While C# has gained some traction in those years, why didn't it make the grade?" In today's Forums,
In today's Weblogs. Arun Gupta talks up wsmonitor (Web Services Monitor): A light-weight SOAP and HTTP Traffic Monitoring tool: "This tool, wsmonitor, is a light-weight, easy to use SOAP and HTTP traffic monitoring tool. This tool uses port forwarding to capture the SOAP messages and HTTP headers between a sender and a receiver and displays them nicely formatted in a graphical user interface." Marina Sum points to Interesting Interviews with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman: "The World Wide Web just turned 15 years old! Two articles quote Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman on the Web's past and future, also P2P." Finally, Richard Bair offers a Varargs Puzzler: "This probably isn't up to Click 'n' Clack's standards, but here's a fun little Java 5 puzzler for a Thursday afternoon." In today's java.net News Headlines : Registered users can submit news items for the java.net News Page using our news submission form. All submissions go through an editorial review before being posted to the site. You can also subscribe to the java.net News RSS feed. Current and upcoming Java Events :
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