the second beta of the palm/ibm MIDP 2.0 implementation is looking pretty good. i mentioned the release the other day and now i finally had a few minutes to try it out on a real device. These screenshots are from the T-Mobile version of the Handspring Treo 600.
platformRequest() worked out of the box, and is probably the best implementation i've seen. on this device, MIDP smoothly launches the blazer browser and quckly loads the reference. very smooth.
the application that performs the plaformRequest() seems to exit however.
the other bugs that are apparent in this pre-release developer version are some selection focus bugs in the List implementation. a few times i had one item selected, but the actual selectedIndex() seemed to be set to a previous selection.
performance of this application anyway, was better than on the nokia 6600, probably about the same as the SE P900. this implemenation uses the IBM J9 VM.
also, i don't know if this will change - it doesn't appear that the application can run in the background on the palm os. switching focus of the application seems to require a restart - so the J2ME app has to save its state.
good to see MIDP 2.0 will soon have another home.
Posted by Steve at February 28, 2004 12:24 PM | TrackBack
Can you please tell me where on the site you can find the beta? I'v looked all around ut can't seem to find it. Thanks.
Posted by: Anders at March 3, 2004 03:49 PM
Ah, found it. Silly me. ;)
Posted by: Anders at March 3, 2004 03:52 PM
Or, acutally I didn't. I should just go to bed. ;) Can you please tell me where to find it? Thanks. :)
Posted by: Anders at March 3, 2004 03:55 PM