| RE: [mobile-iwg] Comments on quickinstall |
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RIM’s SDKs are not built on the Sun
SDK, and do not support UEI. I am not sure about any other vendors, but we
would need some mechanism outside of Sun SDK support for our bundles. Also, there is a thought that there may be
vendor SDK’s that require native installer support. Ken Wallis From:
mobile-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mobile-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Olsén, Ingemar Hi! I would like to make some comments on the topic on
the meeting yesterday regarding the proposal on Quickinstall for vendor
specific SDK's (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMIWG/MADKQuickStartUseCasesDiscussion#Open_Ques). I should
have raised the question during the meeting yesterday but I felt that I had to
investigate some things first. SonyEricsson is going to release a new SDK soon. It will be
compliant with Sun's JavaME SDK 3.0 (formerly known as WTK). In the new
architecture of SDK 3.0 the concept of vendor specific SDK's is
not really apropriate, each vendor only needs to create their own device
adapter to the SDK 3.0. I would like to refer to the mail that Tomas
Westling sent (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mobile-iwg/msg00038.html)
and the picture attached to this mail to get an understanding of how it
works in concept. As you can see, according to this new architecture, there is
no direct contact between the vendor specific device adapter and the
IDE. Everything is handeled through the UEI implementation of SDK 3.0. The
most important thing for SonyEricsson is that the MADK is able to install and
to be compliant with the SDK 3.0 from Sun. This should not be a
problem since it will be fully UEI compatible. Given this scenario, in my mind there will not be a
SonyEricsson alternative in the list of installable SDK's in the
quickinstaller but there should be a Sun Java ME SDK 3.0 alternative
instead. The question is what will happen to other vendors
SDK's. Most of them are based on Sun's previous WTK solution,
will thay also upgrade to JavaME SDK 3.0? In that case, will the quickinstaller
be superfluous? Regarding the questions in the agenda for the meeting
yesterday on the SDK 3.0 integration: Q: it has a "Device Manager" -
can we integrate this in Eclipse? A: The idea is that all
communication should be handled via the UEI standard. Q: it uses an update manager - how is
this compatible with Eclipse P2? A: It's based on the update mecanism of
NetBeans. The updating of the device adapters is handled inside the SDK. Best regards! Ingemar Olsén This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. |