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On Sunday 20 January 2002 4:42 pm, Neil Williams wrote: Re: Nokia WAP toolkit being Win32 only despite being written in Java.
So what was the point of writing it in Java??!!Having written a non-portable Java program... Our motivation was to allow easier portability in the future, at the time Java's printing facilities left us cold, so we cheated in the printing class. Fitting alternative printing solutions will be easy when the time comes. Not sure about Nokia's motivation.
or ability: http://www.anywhereyougo.com/ayg/ayg/wap/Article.po?type=WAP_Tutorial&page=9991 It can run on Linux - I'm just trying to avoid having to download the JRE (15Mb) and I have only got download versions of recent distros!
But that's the real point about Nokia's Java toolkit - the rest of the code is easily switched from C++ to Java because the syntax is very similar. So they did the easy bit and got 'cold feet' when the Java language insisted on a complete re-write of the GUI. I'm not saying Nokia are bad for doing that - it's a classic example of the failings of Java. Maybe things are better now, but forgive me if I stick to C/C++.
Or maybe not, maybe it is a failing of Nokia after all. I'll let you know just as soon as I get it running!!! -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.