Archive for the ‘Java’ Category

Sending and receiving GSM SMS on Blackberry using RIM APIs

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

One of the most interesting aspects of the mobile applications is the asynchronous messaging. SMS messages, despite their small size and other limitations represent a very important mechanism the applications can use for various purposes: sending small connectionless notifications from the client to the server, waking up the inactive application on the user’s [...]

Using HTTP-Over-Socket and HTTP Proxy in J2ME Applications

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

As you know, MIDP version 2 (in fact, CLDC 1.x) offers very limited networking support. While trying to come up with a very simple, highly portable and as much flexible as possible networking API, Sun has missed a couple of important things. One of them is the ability to open HTTP connections through a proxy [...]

Managing the Java compiler settings in Eclipse

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Recently I had to create a new workspace for my Eclipse. I like using multiple workspaces, it helps me to split the work into
different domains (one workspace for the current trunk, one for maintaining the previous release, one for the internal
tools - basically one workspace for each complex project). After creating the new workspace I [...]