[jsword-devel] Learning J2ME with jsword

[DM Smith]

Welcome Jon!

Jon Brisbin wrote:
> I'm trying to learn J2ME and wanted to make a simple Bible app for my 
> Samsung Sync A707 using JSword (assuming I can actually figure out how 
> to get arbitrary Java apps to run on the phone...working on that one). 
> I don't really need the whole BibleDesktop suite, as I'm just going to 
> be reading hard-coding a bunch of stuff so I can get enough of an app 
> together to have user input, buttons, scrolling, etc... working.
>
> My question is, has anyone messed with JSword/BibleDesktop on a mobile 
> platform? Any suggestions, comments, advice I need to know before I 
> jump in? Is there a mobile-ized version of JSword that I could use, or 
> do I just put in the basic jsword-1.0.7.jar?
We've talked about working on it, and it is one of our goals, but we 
have never worked on it.

You will need jsword-common-1.0.7.jar as well.

Our software requires Java 1.4. Most phones use a very trimmed version 
of Java which is far less than that. Most are CDC-1.0.

You might find Eclipse a good environment to develop. See: 
http://eclipseme.org/ for details.

Let us know what you find out!


>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon Brisbin ><>
> http://jbrisbin.com
>
>    "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say,
>     abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." 
>                                - George Eliot
>
>    "The novel is an art form and when you use it for 
>     anything other than art, you pervert it. Art never 
>     responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not 
>     for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to 
>     undergo the effort needed to understand it."
>                                - Flannery O'Connor