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Howard Roark

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Phone J2me Apps Work On Zaurus?
« on: May 11, 2005, 09:57:32 pm »
If an app is written in J2ME for a cel phone, will it run under J2ME on a a Zaurus?
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Phone J2me Apps Work On Zaurus?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2005, 03:10:29 am »
No, the version of J2ME available for the Zaurus uses a different profile (PP) than what is used in phones (MIDP). Technically, MIDP is a subset of PP but it has extension packages which, as far as I know, are not available for the Zaurus - mainly javax.microedition.lcdui and related.

I once wrote a proof-of-concept game that ran on both the Zaurus and a J2ME phone but it required an abstraction layer to sort out the platform differences.

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