New LWUIT, JDTF, JSR 290, and Java Card Screencasts

Terrence Barr announced the availability of four brand-new screencasts on current subjects in this week's java.net Spotlight. The screencasts, which are about five minutes long, provide introductions to LWUIT (Lightweight User Interface Toolkit), JDTF (Java Device Test Framework), JSR 290 (Java Language & XML User Interface Markup Integration), and Java Card. The LWUIT screencast, titled Do It With LWUIT (LWUIT rhymes with "do it"), provides an introduction to the toolkit that's suitable for developers who may have heard of LWUIT but don't know much in detail about it. For example, LWUIT is an open source project that is hosted on java.net. It's licensed under GPL v2 with the classpath exception. It's built on MIDP 2.0 on top of Canvas. LWUIT is in part a response to the iPhone. LWUIT offers developers the capability to develop rich mobile user interfaces on a broad spectrum of devices. If you know Swing, getting going with LWUIT development is straightforward. Touchscreen support is included. The screencast closes with comparisons between LWUIT and JavaFX. The Java Device Test Framework screencast introduces JDTF, which is a test harness that provides testing capability on JavaME devices. The screencast provides instruction on how to install, set up, and use JDTF. JDTF is also an open source project hosted on java.net. JDTF includes a NetBeans plugin that provides for convenient JDTF test development ...

Date: September, 07 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/09/07/new-lwuit-jdtf-jsr-290-and-java-card-screencasts

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