[News.eclipse.dsdp.mtj] Re: Device Information Database

[Sebastian Sickelmann <sebastian.sickelmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Martin

OK, The ideas comes as a think about a contribution for MTJ and how this
contribution should access the availiable device informations. And i
think it is not a good way that a part of MTJ accesses a device database
directly without any defined standard interface. But where to place the
definition of that interface? Maybe it is an Java independent topic. But
i have the same problem to see the need of an device information
database outside of MTJ. I am not yet very familiar with development of
- Windows Mobile
- PalmOS
- BREW
- native Symbian OS.
- ...

But i can imagine that developers for other devices than JavaME having
comparable needs for a device database.
Has the device a camera, and can it be accessed?
Does the device support alpha-transparancy?
Does it natively support bluethooth?

If not, than i looking forward to get more experience in programming
those devices and will continue the discussion in MTJ-Newsgroup only.

Are here some developers who have the need of a device information database?

Hope to hear that there is no need for an device information database
for mobile devicess outside JavaME.

Kind regard
Sebastian

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Martin Oberhuber schrieb:
> Hello Sebastian,
>
> could you elaborate a little bit what kind of use you'd want to make
> from an integrated device information database?
>
> My feeling is that for device platforms outside the mobile java
> space, the hardware is perhaps just too different to fit into a
> generic scheme for such device information, such that a tooling
> could make use of it.
>
> In case I'm right, the MTJ project might be the right place for
> discussing this. Or does anybody know about a similar public available
> database for hardware other than Java platforms?
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Martin Oberhuber
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
>
>
> Sebastian Sickelmann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> First of all, sorry for the crosspost. But i have a question in which
>> project device information access should be managed.
>>
>> My first idea was the dsdp-tm project, but looking through the use cases
>> and the newsgroup of dsdp-tm astonished me a bit. Non of the
>> sub-projects in dsdp addresses device information that is fundamental
>> for multi-device development(at least at JavaME-Development).
>>
>> I think about an abstraction of accessing multiple device-information
>> databases like (J2ME-Polish-Device-Database, WURFL, J2ME-Device-Database
>> , see
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:J2ME:MIDP_Device_Databases for
>> more.)
>>
>> Possible there can be an abstraction, that all(or may be some)
>> mobile-phone manufactors can contribute data to.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Sebastian