Bluetooth For Java

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Summary: Excellent resource for the Bluetooth API
Review: Bluetooth is a short range (max range of 30-300 feet) wireless communications protocol. JSR-82 is a Bluetooth API for Java that allows Bluetooth enabled devices talk to each other using the Java programs. Using Bluetooth, a PDA could talk to a printer and ask for a document to be printed or two Bluetooth enabled PDAs could exchange Java objects. Even if you know nothing about Bluetooth or wireless communications, this book will give you enough information to get started.

The book starts with an examination of Bluetooth and the terminology you need to know to understand Bluetooth enabled devices. It then gets into the basics of the Bluetooth API for Java and developing programs using J2ME MIDP. Chapters cover creating a Bluetooth print server, passing objects between Bluetooth devices, and securing messages between devices. The authors discuss the PC software available to simulate two Bluetooth devices talking to each other so that you can develop an application without having two Bluetooth devices sitting on your desk. The final chapters covers topics such as Jini and Ericsson BlipNet. The book contains many well commented code samples demonstrating how to use the Bluetooth API.

The book is very clear and concise. The book reads as if it was written by a couple of enthusiastic Bluetooth developers anxious to share the technology. And they do an excellent job of doing exactly that. The book is well written and interesting. I started the book knowing almost nothing about Bluetooth but now I feel confident that I can develop Bluetooth applications. If you have any interest in Bluetooth then I can recommend this book as an excellent resource.

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Summary: the only and so the best book about JSR-82 Bluetooh API
Review: I have been waiting this book for months, and now I have it in my hands. It really tells you all you need to start developing
exciting bluetooth applications for tomorrow mobile devices.
The best part of the book is the review of the available resources existing today for work with the JSR-82 like ATINAV stack and Rococo impronto simulator.

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Summary: Get On With It - Not your usual BlueTooth Book!
Review: If you are a developer, student or home hobbyist with experience in Java programming and a desire to add bluetooth technology to your systems/programs then look no further than this book.
Forget another book explaining the Bluetooth spec, you don't even need to understand what JSR-82 is, if you know how to use an API and Bluetooth is a must then read this. A brief overview on bluetooth, A brief introduction to JSR-82 then your ready with specific examples using popular Bluetooth hardware and Popular JSR-82 complient stacks.
Bear in mind you'll need a complient bluetooth device and a JSR-82 based stack to use the book to it's full potential.
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Summary: Great book for Beginners
Review: It is a great book for people who is new to bluetooth and JSR-82 (The only standardized Bluetooth API). By sample codes and introduction of rococo simulators, the users could begin their work in Bluetooth straightway. By end of this book, authors introduce Enterprise Bluetooth Applications with the Dricsson BlipNet, Bluetooth and Jini for more flexible application of Bluetooth.

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Summary: Only First Half Of The Book Is Useful!!!
Review: The authors do a very good job of stepping through the "history" of wireless devices, while keeping focus on developing Bluetooth applications. The examples break down the components to a Bluetooth application and provide a good starting point for developers.

I gave a four star rating based on a couple of my personal preferences. First there are a few bulleted list that don't provide much information which take up a lot of page space. (An example would be the list of JSR-82 Expert Group on page 35.) The other comment is the 50 or so pages of the API in the appendices. Although there is a short explanation for each method, interface, constant, etc., I prefer to look that information up online.

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Summary: Great Introduction Book on an Emerging Technology
Review: The authors do a very good job of stepping through the "history" of wireless devices, while keeping focus on developing Bluetooth applications. The examples break down the components to a Bluetooth application and provide a good starting point for developers.

I gave a four star rating based on a couple of my personal preferences. First there are a few bulleted list that don't provide much information which take up a lot of page space. (An example would be the list of JSR-82 Expert Group on page 35.) The other comment is the 50 or so pages of the API in the appendices. Although there is a short explanation for each method, interface, constant, etc., I prefer to look that information up online.

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Summary: Only First Half Of The Book Is Useful!!!
Review: The first half of this book deserves 4 stars. It makes bluetooth easy to understand by not including too much technical info like timing, etc. I have read other books on bluetooth, but they are too technical. It's like the author just copied the info directly from the RFC. If you are just working on high level application, then the first half of this book is for you. It explains the commonly used Java bluetooth API in simple fashion, and I like the source codes in the book. It is all you need to get start with.

The second half of the book is disappointing. It talks about programming with specific bluetooth simulator and other embredded devices. The info on the simulator is out-dated, because the company no longer offer free trial. So it is useless unless you buy it which I think should be very expensive. Same thing applies to the embredded hardwares. Those chapters are useless for me because they applies only to those devices, and I don't have them. So, I ended up skipping 1/2 of the book.

This is one of the few tech books that has a lot of blank spaces and photos. If you remove those blank spaces and photos, the thickness of the book may be reduced by at least 1/4. So there are not as much info as you think based on the number of pages of this book. But the first half of this book does deserve 4 stars.

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Summary: Great book on Java and Bluetooth
Review: This is a very good book on Bluetooth for Java. The authors do a good job explaining the topic and API, and good code examples and related information... I recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great book on Java and Bluetooth
Review: This is a very good book on Bluetooth for Java. The authors do a good job explaining the topic and API, and good code examples and related information... I recommend this book.