Re: [9fans] Styx/9p implementations in JavaME

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On Nov 14, 2007 8:18 AM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 8:13 AM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/13/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> > // I thought J2ME was limited to http connectivity...
> >
> > I don't *think* that's right. I'm very, very far from a Java expert,
> > but my impression from more knowledgeable people is that JavaME allows
> > direct socket communication, but the implementations on many devices
> > do not. Certainly that was our experience when we were working on
> > applications which tried to listen on the network: JavaME provided the
> > capabilities, but almost all of the handsets we looked at did not.
> >
> > I'll keep you posted.
> > Anthony
> >
>
> It might just depend on what profiles are implemented.
>

Ah here we go from Beginning J2ME (Li and Knudsen) p159

"Although the MIDP 2.0 specification requiers only HTTP and HTTPS
connections, it suggests that implementations support socket, server
socket, and secure socket connections."