Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, Second Edition

Rating:
Summary: Best J2ME book on the market
Review: Two years ago, Jonathan Knudsen released the first edition of this book. At the time I said it was an "excellent book". Knudsen continues to keep his title of "Author of the best intro to J2ME book" with the release of the second edition of his book. About double in size and completely rewritten for the latest release of J2ME, Knudsen has once again written an excellent book.

The book is about writing MIDlets and the first three chapters are an introduction to the topic. Chapter four shows how to leverage your knowledge of J2SE into the MIDlet world, showing which language features of J2SE are available to the MIDlet author. The next few chapters discuss developing a user interface, using persistent storage, connecting to the internet, performance tuning, parsing XML, and securing information. New chapters demonstrating how to use the new game API and the new multimedia extensions have been added to the book.

As always, Knudsen's writing style is perfect. You won't find yourself re-reading paragraphs because the author's language was confusing or because he failed to explain a topic clearly. Each chapter is full of examples that help to make the topic under discussion more easily understood. If you are an intermediate to advanced Java programmer looking to learn how to make cell phones and PDAs learn some new tricks then this book is exactly what you want.

Rating:
Summary: Best J2ME book on the market
Review: Two years ago, Jonathan Knudsen released the first edition of this book. At the time I said it was an "excellent book". Knudsen continues to keep his title of "Author of the best intro to J2ME book" with the release of the second edition of his book. About double in size and completely rewritten for the latest release of J2ME, Knudsen has once again written an excellent book.

The book is about writing MIDlets and the first three chapters are an introduction to the topic. Chapter four shows how to leverage your knowledge of J2SE into the MIDlet world, showing which language features of J2SE are available to the MIDlet author. The next few chapters discuss developing a user interface, using persistent storage, connecting to the internet, performance tuning, parsing XML, and securing information. New chapters demonstrating how to use the new game API and the new multimedia extensions have been added to the book.

As always, Knudsen's writing style is perfect. You won't find yourself re-reading paragraphs because the author's language was confusing or because he failed to explain a topic clearly. Each chapter is full of examples that help to make the topic under discussion more easily understood. If you are an intermediate to advanced Java programmer looking to learn how to make cell phones and PDAs learn some new tricks then this book is exactly what you want.

Rating:
Summary: Best J2ME book on the market
Review: Two years ago, Jonathan Knudsen released the first edition of this book. At the time I said it was an "excellent book". Knudsen continues to keep his title of "Author of the best intro to J2ME book" with the release of the second edition of his book. About double in size and completely rewritten for the latest release of J2ME, Knudsen has once again written an excellent book.

The book is about writing MIDlets and the first three chapters are an introduction to the topic. Chapter four shows how to leverage your knowledge of J2SE into the MIDlet world, showing which language features of J2SE are available to the MIDlet author. The next few chapters discuss developing a user interface, using persistent storage, connecting to the internet, performance tuning, parsing XML, and securing information. New chapters demonstrating how to use the new game API and the new multimedia extensions have been added to the book.

As always, Knudsen's writing style is perfect. You won't find yourself re-reading paragraphs because the author's language was confusing or because he failed to explain a topic clearly. Each chapter is full of examples that help to make the topic under discussion more easily understood. If you are an intermediate to advanced Java programmer looking to learn how to make cell phones and PDAs learn some new tricks then this book is exactly what you want.