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Writing Mobile Wireless Applications
2003-10-31
With the growing popularity of mobile computing devices, including Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and handsets, there is increasing demand by developers to be able to write an application once that can be run across a range of devices.
This article provides an overview of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, as well as the Java alternative, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). It also looks at some of the Intel performance and tuning tools for mobile wireless applications. There are many sets of tools and libraries that developers can use to create rich applications for smart mobile devices like PDAs and handsets. The focus, however, will increasingly be on two main approaches: the .NET Compact Framework, which currently targets Microsoft Pocket PC and devices powered by Windows CE .NET, and J2ME, which is not limited to Microsoft operating systems. Read full story
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