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There is no textbook required for this course. The necessary
reading material will be a combination of paper copies, links to
information on WWW and on-line documentation. The relevant material
will appear next to each lecture. Sun maintains a web-site with a lot
of useful information
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/. Most of the
information you need for the course is available there.
There are a number of textbooks on Java Micro Edition - J2ME. If you
want to have a book (because you prefer that to online information)
make sure that you get an edition that covers version MIDP
2.0.
Some lectures in the course are based on chapters from the two books:
Effective Java: Programming Language Guide by Josh Bloch, and
MIDP 2.0 Style Guide by Annette Wagner and Cindy
Bloch. However, it is not necessary to buy these books to follow the
course.
The book Bluetooth for Java by Bruce Hopkins and Ranjith Antony
gives a complete introduction to Bluetooth and the J2ME Bluetooth
API. There is a companion website.
The MIDP 2.0 API documentation gives details on all the available
packages in J2ME. This is available on machines where the toolkit is
available via the Windows Start menu.
To do the exercises
associated with the course, the J2ME version 2.1/2.2 toolkit is needed. It
can be downloaded for free, see below. Furthermore, a text editor is
needed for editing source programs.
Useful Links
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