[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] j2me-device-db

[Szasz Pal]

Raj Singh wrote:
> Have you seen the WURFL?
> 
> wurfl.sourceforge.net 

Yes, but IMHO j2me-device-db is much easier to update, extend, since 
it's based on a simple text format, more human readable then xml.
Also by using "#include"s a lot of data repetition can be avoided.
Also it supports conditionals, example:

#if full_canvas
canvas.height = 208
#else
canvas.height = 144
#endif

As I see it WURFL is good for wap site developers, but it contains very 
limited information for j2me programmers.
We intend to include even banchmarking results in the database. Also we 
want to add properties to describe other/special aspects of the java 
implementation, for example the number of sounds that can be prefetched 
at the same time, or should the coder starts sound in a separate thread 
due to the long initialization time.

We want to create a DB, using which porting high quality applications 
will be as simple as possible.

(btw, the DB and the associated tools are already used in at least 5 
commercial projects)


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Best regards,
Szasz Pal
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