:: MIDlet portability ::
There are a number of issues concerning MIDlet portability from one device to another. Some of these issues are reminiscent of the compatibility problems faced by WAP designers. Testing remains a headache compounded by the problem of having to cope with a legacy of devices that cannot be updated in the field (at least not so easily that an average user would ever bother - or know about most likely).
I found some of the articles on Consultancy Penrillian's download site very informative on this issue. Managing Director Charles Weir has also written an intriguing book on patterns for low memory software design, though I have not read it myself, it seems to come highly recommended. I remember all too well the amount of research we did at Motorola into memory utilisation in GSM DSP devices. The irony was that much of the optimisation was done in the algorithms only to have clumsy control code hog all the memory. Perhaps this book would have been useful back then and is probably useful now to the MIDlet designers out there operating on low memory budgets.
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