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Press Highlights

FCC Sets Aside Airwaves for '3-G'.

Palm announces the new Tungsten™ W handheld, the first Palm branded integrated GSM™/GPRS wireless handheld with a built-in keyboard and high-resolution color screen.

Borland® and Zentek® to Advance Wireless Java™ Development in Japan.

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Event Highlights

January 20-21, 2003 Wireless Java Implementation Strategies, in London.

Spring 2003 Location Based Services Summit, March 31 - April 2 at the San Jose Convention Center. Speaking proposals are currently being accepted. The deadline is November 29th.

June 9-13, 2003 - JavaOne, San Francisco, CA, Moscone Center.

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Featured Developer Sites

Sun Microsystems Introduces the Authoritative Wireless Developer Portal: Wireless.Java.Sun.Com

Forum Nokia is Nokia's developer portal, where Java SDKs for various Nokia devices are available.

Get the latest Java technical information and support directly from Sun through the Sun Developer Connection.

From the Editor: This issue of the JLS Newsletter highlights recent developments in Wireless Java Technology. In his article Deploying Wireless Java Applications, Qusay H. Mahmoud describes different techniques for deploying wireless applications. Michael Juntao Yuan offers a comparative review of four J2ME IDEs in his article Best tools for mobile application development. Visit Developers Corner for additional development resources. Also see Technology Showcase for Wireless Java Products. If you're a beginner, check out Educational Resources.

Next month's newsletter will feature the new open location services platform developed under the OpenLS initiative, known as the GeoMobility Server. This platform defines a foundational framework for location based application services and location content. Catch this platform in action November 18-21, 2002 in Nice, France, as leading LBS platform vendors demonstrate their implementations at the European LBS Forum. There's still time to register!

Visit the JLS site regularly to stay abreast. Harry Niedzwiadek

Deploying Wireless Java Applications. This article by Qusay Mahmoud, the author of Distributed Programming with Java (Manning Publications, 1999) and Wireless Java (O'Reilly & Associates, 2001), shows you how to:

  • Deploy wireless applications remotely,
  • Download local and remotely deployed applications, and
  • Download applications over the air. Read the Article
Oracle9iAS Wireless: Creating a Mobilized Business. A white paper describing the capabilities of Oracle's mobile application development platform for wireless developers.

Best tools for mobile application development. As wireless Java goes mainstream, development tool vendors continue to introduce new and refined J2ME Ides By addressing the unique issues in device programming, these Ides allow existing and Java developers to more easily adopt J2ME. Author Michael Yuan reviews four J2ME Ides: Sun Microsystems' Sun ONE (Open Network Environment) Studio 4 Mobile Edition, Borland JBuilder 7 Enterprise with MobileSet 3, Metrowerks CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, and S5 Systems' jVise. Read the article

Industry Reports Available for Purchase

Wireless Java: Worldwide Market Analysis and Strategies Outlook 2001-2006.

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2002 Wireless Location-Based Marketing Research Study, by Driscoll-Wolfe.

European Wireless Location Services:Enabling the Mobile Internet, by the Strategis Group.

Future Mobile Handsets, by Arc Group.

Mobile Advertising, by Arc Group

Wireless Internet Platforms, by Arc Group.

The Java™ 2 Platform Micro Edition, (J2ME™) Wireless Toolkit is a set of tools that provides wireless application developers with the emulation environment, documentation and examples needed to develop Java technology applications targeted at CLDC/MIDP compliant mobile phones and entry level PDAs.

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ESRI Mobile Solutions

Increasingly, businesses are delivering critical data to field personnel equipped with mobile devices. As the volume, complexity and value of this data increases, so does the need for more advanced capabilities on mobile devices.

ArcLocation Solutions provides mobile operators and application developers with the services and tools they need to introduce new location-based service applications, and to enhance existing applications.

ArcPad provides database access, mapping, GIS, and global positioning system (GPS) integration.

ArcGIS Tablet PC support allows you to run the ArcGIS suite of desktop products on a mobile PC.

Related Books

Wireless Java: Developing with Java 2, Micro Edition, by Jonathan Knudsen.

Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web: Professional Developer's Guide, by Johan Hjelm.

Wireless Java Programming for Enterprise Applications: Mobile Devices Go Corporate, by Dan Harkey, Mike Larkin & Shan Appajodu.

Link to 'Wireless Resources' for the complete book listing and links