Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

Yahoo just launched oneSearch on WAP. You can find it at http://m.yahoo.com.

This is a document from Yahoo which compares its offers with Google:
[PDF] Yahoo vs. Google on mobile

I started Java ME Open Source Software site at the end of 2004. Initially it had 60+ projects. Now that number is more than doubled (~140). I am pretty happy with its Google ranking and sometimes it surprised me. It ranks No. 7 when searching “Java ME”. There are a few No. 1 cases such as J2ME game library.

Now, one blogger likes it so much that s/he started copying the content to this blog:
http://javaonthemove.blogspot.com
There are some improvement here and there. A few screenshots are added. But the categories are extremely similar. Most of the content is exactly the same, such as project description, related article links etc.

This person must read my blog. I added a few projects last Saturday, and they were added to that site on Sunday.

There is a similar case happened to Bill Day. Someone stole his popular J2ME Archive in 2005. Now that pirate site is still live.

To that javaonthemove blogger just in case s/he is reading my blog: shame on you!

I was reading the latest issue of the Economist magazine today. I like this magazine not only because its content, but also its style, in which advertisement does not interrupt my reading. That reminds me some old fashion black-and-white print magazines I used to read in China.

One article Visualisation: Go with the flow mentions one project from MIT. In that project, data from mobile phone networks is used to monitor and visualize the flow of people. And it took me no time to find it online: mobile landscape | graz in real time. Actually there are more interesting projects from MIT senseable city lab.

More open source projects were added to Java ME Open Source Software directory.

UI: Fire (Flexible Interface Rendering Engine), Micro Window Toolkit
Dev Tool: pyx4me cldcunit and Maven plugins, StrutsME
Game Platform: GASP
Math: Javia Calculator
Other: Menstrual Calendar

Via Andrea’s blog

The Ericsson Mobile JSF Kit provides a JSF library, MobileFaces, which implements a reference solution about mobile-device-specific rendering for mobile applications based on Java EE.

There are more additional solution packages for Mobile JSF Kit, such as DotMobi Template, Mobile Ajax, Mobile Security and Mobile Portlet. To me, this library demonstrates best practices of applying Java EE technologies (JSF, Portlet) to mobile web site development.