Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

Inspired by this famous Java vs. Ruby picture, I took a picture of Java vs. Groovy:

Apparently I miss one Grails book, like this one from Apress. Nevertheless, the message is clear: Groovy is on top of Java.

Wikipedia: Chinese New Year

Via Edoardo’s blog: First Java ME Open Source Push Email Client

Congratulations to Funambol team!

The client is based on OMA Data Synchronization protocol (SyncML) and works with Funambol Portal. Any user can configure his identity (email server, phone number) in the portal and receive the emails (in push and in poll modality) on his Java ME device. It will be released under GPL license and it’s open to changes coming from the developers community.

It includes also an awesome collection of Java ME API you can include within other MIDlet suites: a class for Thread Pool management, Serializable classes, an implementation of the Observer/Observable pattern, support for Logging, RMS and XML… and much more.

A few years ago I was working on a PIM project. I got the chance to evaluate two Java open source SyncML projects - Sync4j (now Funambol) and kSync. I read the SyncML: Synchronizing and Managing Your Mobile Data book cover to cover. It is a very good book and seems still the only SyncML book available.

I thought today I can download the smart2go client and give it a try. Apparently that site is overloaded and gives a MaxTransientObjectsExceeded error.

But I happened to find some smart2go slides on Flickr. Here are two of them:

Yet another free map/navigation application for mobile phones. It is from Nokia, but it supports both Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.

The platform allows for mapping and routing in over 150 countries and has support for full turn-by-turn satellite navigation in over 30 countries. The application allows people to view where they are on a map, search for points-of-interests (POI) around them and create routes to get them there free of charge. Nokia plans to start offering the smart2go application for free, on Saturday, February 10th, for selected Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices initially and has plans to roll out support for most of the major mobile OS platforms including Nokia S60, Series 40, PocketPC, Linux and other Windows Mobile devices.

Nokia Smart2go Mapping and Navigation Free