- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (24 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471486841
- ISBN-13: 978-0471486848
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.9 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,360,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Developed by a consortium of several major mobile-telephone manufacturers and licensed by nearly all the others, the Symbian OS seems likely to be the operating system running on the next generation of mobile communications devices. Wireless Java for Symbian Devices explains why the Java programming language is similarly likely to appeal to programmers tasked with providing services to users of Symbian devices. This book is a guide for competent Java programmers who need to know how Java works under Symbian, and want to learn by working through some illustrative examples (beginning with Hello World and working up in complexity from there).
The authors--who work for Symbian--do a good job of revealing their environment's capabilities, and leave their readers feeling prepared to dive in and do less academic development work. Code samples and class diagrams help clarify systems' workings, and explanatory prose is generally lucid. Helpfully, the authors go beyond mere explanation of APIs and show how to build full applications, including a multi-user card game and a chat-and-whiteboard tool. As with any emerging technology, though, readers may wonder how the examples will pan out outside the emulator, in a production environment. Only time and experience will tell. For now, this book represents a good value for people who want to scope out Java's behaviour under the Symbian OS before the combination goes big-time. --David Wall
Topics covered: how to program applications in Java for execution under Symbian OS version 6.0 (both the Quartz and Crystal implementations are dealt with). Sections address the JavaPhone APIs, Java Services and the special security and efficiency requirements of mobile software.
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"...aimed at developers who are creating Java applications for Symbian OS phones and other constrained devices." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)
"you should find space on your Java bookshelf for this book." (Wireless Developers Network, 16 April 2002)
"...a readable document, even for beginners..." (Forum Nokia, 6 March 2003)
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wireless Java is a fast-moving area, with almost daily changes to APIs, SDKs and new devices. It is further complicated by the many different Java platforms that exist. In such a situation, it is customary to explain the context of the technology, and a 'roadmap' - where we've come from, where we are, where we're going. An experienced developer also requires a well-structured guide to building simple applications of different kinds (in the case of Wireless Java, these would currently be for J2ME, Symbian's own UIQ, and JNI - connecting Java and C/C++ etc together).
While there is a lot of information in this book, it is presented in a haphazard and rather long-winded way, and makes learning new things a daunting task. Many of the examples are incomplete, finding them on the Web is difficult (there is no CD), and some of them do not compile for all platforms. The build process, crucial to deploying an application on the phone, and relatively simple to explain, is, incredibly, omitted.
The book's coverage of J2ME is minimal. You'll like this book if you're just trying to fill in some gaps in your knowledge, but don't expect a gentle or organised introduction to writing for Symbian devices.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Expert Author and Fun Examples
24 Jan 2003
Format:Paperback
The credentials of the lead author are top notch. The book covers a variety of topics that will be important to developing for wireless Symbian devices.
The examples in the book are Fun. These include XBomb (a game), "The Little Black Book", The DiceMachine, Whist, and more.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Exciting technology, but many errors
5 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
There are far too many typos (source codes, etc) in this book to recommend it to anyone. Bet the author wrote this book with one of those devices.
3 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Exciting technology, but many errors
4 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
There are far too many typos (source codes, etc) in this book to recommend it to anyone. Bet the author wrote this book with one of those devices.
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