Feature request/suggestion [mobile jar emulator]

[Simon]

Sorry if this has been posted before somewhere - I didn't find it in the forums on searching...

There is a project called MicroEmu @ http://www.microemu.org/ which offers a full Java implementation of MIDP2 (unless I misunderstood something...)

I have been fiddling around with it and have a setup where I can upload a .jar file to my webserver and simply run my MMF2 Mobile Java game in it from my browser. The emulator can run as an applet, webstart or standalone. It supports different device functionalities including screen sizes etc. and seems to be available for use under a GNU GPL.

Would it be possible to tie something like this into MMF2 so that you could compile and auto-launch the resultant .jar on a selected device profile? Since putting this in place the speed of testing has dramatically increased - no more uploading to and installing on my phone (a Nokia N95, so not exactly slow) each time.

I do have the Java Wireless Toolkit (or whatever it is called) and can run MIDP fine in that, but it seems quite slow and clunky by comparison. The MicroEmu solution feels much more snappy and elegant.

Cheers

[Francois]

It seems really great! So you say it does work with MMF created applications.
I see it implemented in a very simple way : in the last betas, you can now press CONTROL-RUN, it will build your application and run the build file. So control-run in Java mobile would lauch microemulator.
I'll have a look at it when the Flash version is over (January)

[Looki]

Thanks, nice find! I'll have a look at it for sure.

[Simon]

Yes, it definitely runs them fine. It took a bit of reading to work out just how to configure the device skin etc. and get it launching but now that I have it runs perfectly with no noticeable difference in the apps over installing and running on my phone or using the Sun Run MIDP thingy (except sound playback - I'm not sure that works right).

Very cool!

[Simon]

It seems really great! So you say it does work with MMF created applications.
I see it implemented in a very simple way : in the last betas, you can now press CONTROL-RUN, it will build your application and run the build file. So control-run in Java mobile would lauch microemulator.
I'll have a look at it when the Flash version is over (January)

Yeah, that would be fantastic! It would certainly streamline the testing process for mobile Java applications!

[Simon]

I've uploaded a simple demo here for people to check out:

http://www.acsv.net/members/stopgap/j2medemo/index.html

Cheers