Exploring J2ME

Over the weekend I have been looking into the J2ME api with the help of the 'Programming Java 2 Micro Edition w/ Symbian' book. Being more oriented towards covering the length and breadth of J2ME, this is not an ideal book for someone new to wireless programming. I did however, get a good overview of the J2ME api.

J2ME is definitely a limited api. We will need to code a lot of the UI by hand, developing new widgets as we go. Designing a good UI will require quite some work. I have been giving considerable thought to our UI and the more I think, the more I am convinced that we should adopt a very no-frills approach for the UI. One that doesn't try to get in the way of the user.

On a cursory look, I do feel that making any sort of connection should be fairly simple given the high level of abstraction in the Connector api.

So much for now, I'm heading to work.