Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Sample code does not work:

Having read only the first few chapters I was ready to go run the first example. The problem was the server that the Jargoneer application connects to does not exist at the URL used. Not a very impressive start! Hopefully the other examples work.

Very good introduction to J2ME CLDC/MIDP:

I am commenting on the First Edition of this book.

I own two books on introductory J2ME development in a CLDC/MIDP environment: this is the better of the two. Mr. Knudsen writes well (no silly jokes or other distracting nonsense), and covers the core material one needs to begin programming MIDlets.

Chapter 12 in the first edition is extremely useful, wherein the practical use of message digests on the client side are illustrated.

All in all, a good book for the bookshelf, and one I recommend to... more info

Daft:

This book is really, really daft, because to date there is only a minute number of mobile phones available on the planet which implement MIDP 2.0. You can't imagine how painful that is, because chances are you won't be able to run Knudsen's code on your device. Not only that, you won't even be able to compile it with your version 1 tools. It's a shame really, it's otherwise a good intro to J2ME with plenty of code and an appendix which serves as a reference. Pity that we'll all have to wait at least for... more info

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