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List:       kvm-interest
Subject:    Re: Socket protocol in j2me wireless toolkit
From:       Al Sutton <al () ALSUTTON ! COM>
Date:       2000-11-30 20:42:26
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Eric,

To connect to HTTP servers you need to (as you point out) end up with a byte
stream
going over TCP/IP. I find it a shame that the
protocol limits the developer to having to use HTTP and it's headers, and
does not allow them
to send any byte stream (or even text stream such as an XML string) without
extra headers using the same method.

It seems that the connectivity offered by the midp at the moment is that
same as the currently deployed version of WAP which has come under criticism
from a number of groups for not having a push technology.

Al.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Giguere" <ericgiguere@ERICGIGUERE.COM>
To: <KVM-INTEREST@JAVA.SUN.COM>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Socket protocol in j2me wireless toolkit


> > After examining the classes in midpapi I have seen that the only
> > (apparently) supported protocol is http, but I can't believe that java
> based
> > wireless devices are going to be limited to http only connections as
this
> > would severely hinder development of network aware applications that ;
>
> Ah, but you're assuming that every network is socket-friendly.  This is
not
> the case with wireless networks, necessarily.  To be portable they had to
> limit connectivity to a higher level protocol like HTTP, which is in fact
> independent of the underlying transport mechanism.  Even with HTTP some
> networks will have to install gateways in order to convert requests from
the
> wireless network's format to a TCP/IP-based format to be able to access
the
> Internet.....
>
> Eric
>
>
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