Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Practically all you'll need:

I have spent a great deal of time browsing through a number of J2ME books in a couple of my local bookstores. This book caught my eye and I decided to browse through it. I was "wowed" by quality of the content. After implementing the examples in the chapters, I can definitively say that this book is excellent.

Simple. Clear. Straightforward.:

I have several books on J2ME. Yet, as good as those books are, I've found myself using only this book. This book does not simply gloss over or "introduce" you to concepts. Every chapter provides enough coverage to really get you programming. Keogh is informative in his concise writing style. You won't be disappointed.

Wordy, overly contrived, boring:

The main problem with this book is that it is excessively wordy. Every single example is introduced with several pages of text. Every single time Keogh writes that any exceptions generated in the try block are caught by the catch block. Yeah... thanks a lot for that great piece of advice. After these several pages of text there is a box with about 10 to 20 steps that he suggests to accomplish the discussed task. Invariably these begin with:
1. Declare references to classes
2. Create instances of... more info

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