Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote:
IMHO, part of the success[1] of mono is the fact that it uses (can use)
Gtk almost natively. People who know Gtk can jump on the bandwagon
instantly, benefiting from the C# object-oriented features without
"losing" any C knowledge.
Again, maybe I'm just not looking into the right places... but has
anyone actually managed to achieve this (kind of) UI-abstraction with
Java? I mean -- is is possible to run those games for mobile phones on
linux/windows desktop? Can I run the gmail java-client for symbian on a
linux/windows desktop? I don't think so, since google even seems to be
bundling a separate version of the gmail-app for every
version of symbian.
I'm not a j2me expert, but most people don't run j2me apps on the
desktop because desktops have resources enough to run a full JVM.
If you're running a j2me app on the desktop it is usually for
development purposes.
The 770 is different because it has a nice screen and decent resolution,
but a full JVM would be a little excessive. IMHO, a hildonized j2me
with full access to the device's hardware would be perfect.
The GNU/classpath community has done a great job using GTK to create an
open source java stack, but j2me wasn't really part of that development
effort. It is not quite as simple as taking a subset of classpath and
hildonizing the gtk part, but having Sun's code now for the MIDP stuff
might help.
Luis
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