Crossroads explained...

I just realised the following may not have gone to everyone.
It went to TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com and got stuck.

This is how it works:
If a message goes to TyndaleSTEP.Prog@Blogger.com, it goes to
everyone on the list,
The "From" is TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com
If you simply hit reply, a filter at TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com looks for
a subject with
"Programming" OR "Programs" OR "Prog" (which Blogger puts in the
Subject line)
and sends it on to TyndaleSTEP.Prog@Blogger.com, and so to the others.

BUT, if you hit reply, AND remove the start of the subject line, it gets lost.

Sorry about these complications.
They are due to me trying to tie up all the different strands of the
STEP project at one GMail address and one Blogger account.
It kinda works, but in this case it didn't.

David IVB

Sent 18 Sept 2009==========================

@Dib - I seriously doubt that a jvm will be ported onto the iPhone. But
then again, we don't need a jvm. If someone has the means to procure an
iPhone, they will have a 3G connection to the web via Safari. Also, the
iPhone implements parts of HTML5 I believe. This is the area that I'm
interested in... for iPhone Safari we can make use of HTML5 databases
and for Android phones we can make use of Google Gears.

I will also be looking into Google App Engine as the server-side hosting
solution. Naturally, I will document my findings. This will help us be
more "objective" in our technology evaluations.

@Chris - J2ME doesn't implement the Collections framework, but I'm sure
there are already some database libraries out there. Or you could write
a nice simple one yourself.

Love in Christ,
David.

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That sounds very hopeful.
The lack of iPhone is a problem. Perhaps a Java VM will arrive in time.
I'm aware that although a machine may have a Java VM, there can still
be limitations of hardware,
- screen size and memory, if nothing else!

David IB

At 23:25 17/09/2009, you wrote:
>Basically on that note, anything that has a Java VM would be able to
>run our thing. I believe iPhones don't have one.
>There's some mention about it being used on J2ME. I guess we'd need
>to try it out to make sure... We'd have to ensure the database
>choice works with J2ME too...
>MacOS and Linux will work with the exact same code, with no need to
>recompile.
>Android supports Java, so that would be no problem if it was
>supported on ME. There's mention of there now being a version of
>JavaSE for Android also...