Thread: Java for Internet on Nokia N800
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2008-04-01 , 20:18
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Originally Posted by dbinabq View Post
What about running J2ME on the tablet? Would that work?
Probably. FYI: from a previous Java thread.

Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
The web browser in OS2008 is a Gecko-based browser, similar to Firefox 3; so fully supports JavaScript. However, apart from a similarity of syntax there is no commonality between JavaScript and Java.

Jalimo can be used to run Java SE applications, using SWT as a GUI toolkit and this is making good progress. Even without using the Jazelle extensions supported by the CPU, apart from start-up time, it's not as slow as I was expecting in use.

There are no browser plugins which hook into Jalimo or similar to provide Java applet support in the browser, as far as I'm aware.
I successfully used Jalimo on an N800 to demo a distributed application with pieces spread across four machines. It is quite good, provided the code you want to run doesn't depend on AWT or Swing. Except for the two GUI libraries, it is much closer to SE than ME, a real good thing. We actually developed the Java code using Eclipse on both Windows and Linux Fedora, then moved the jar files to the various handhelds. Two of the handhelds in the demo ran verisons of Windows Mobile running J9, the third handheld, the N800, ran Jalimo, and the fourth machine was a laptop running Sun's J2SE.

Bob
 

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