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PDA Development
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:53 pm
by sarah
Hi
Not a php issue but ...
I'm looking at doing some PDA work and looking at the various tools. Before I spend big bucks I'm interested to find out what other people are using. I'll need to do the app, a conduit and suck info into a Visual Foxpro database.
I'm not concerned about having to learn C++ or VBA and I could use Java but I need to protect my code.
woops
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:56 pm
by sarah
forgot to login first
Related thought ...
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:45 pm
by drjones
Have a PHP & DB system that eventually needs to talk to PDAs for updates for schedule, contacts, and such.
Would be much interested if someone has already done some of the conduit work.
Guessing that the solution is going to require a client-side executable that can talk to the server that handles permissions and DB abstration.
Thoughts?

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 8:01 pm
by ajaypatil
You can use J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). It is a nice easy API in
Java to program in small devices.
However, your PDA (i.e the company or provider) needs to have
J2ME support. Please check on wireless.java.sun.com.
If it is available, you will need an emulator software so that
you can develop and test on your local PC. Sun provides a
default emulator but if you have one specific to your PDA, it will
be more accurate.
To connect to your FoxPro database from PDA, you can use HTTP
protocol in J2ME. If you write Java Servlets on server side then
you can directly send/receive Java objects to server.
Otherwise if you use PHP, you can use XML to exchange data from
PDA to Server.
Hope this is helpful to you,
Ajay
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 8:05 pm
by ajaypatil
I have already done work on this i.e PDA, server-side DB system
and developed quite extensive PDA applications, tackling problems
such as memory, user interface restrictions, security issues, etc.
If you need my help on your projects, please contact at
ajaypatilpune@hotmail.com