Chapter 3. The Smart Client Paradigm: iFeedBack
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
Benefits of Smart Clients
The iFeedBack Application
Distributed Authentication
The UI Call Model
The Thread Model
Implementation Walk Through
J2ME represents a new mobile application paradigm: smart clients. Smart clients, especially Java smart clients, have many advantages over competing solutions such as WAP/WML. In this chapter, I use a sample application, iFeedBack, the grand prize winner of 2003 NexTel/Sun/Motorola University Wireless Developer Contest, to illustrate the power of smart clients and the basic end-to-end architecture. We will focus on the overall design and briefly walk through the implementation.
Since this book targets advanced Java developers, I assume that you already ...
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