Re: [OpenMap Users] developing a mobile Openmap

Hi Raj,

Thanks for the update.

  - Don

On Dec 6, 2003, at 3:38 AM, Raj Singh wrote:

> To follow up on this thread, our project has chosen geotools-lite
> (formerly geotools1) as our starting point. My message to that group
> is below. As an FYI to those interested in PDA app development, our
> research found that Palms are not likely to support AWT (much less
> Swing) in the near future due to some basic differences in philosophy
> about what a PDA OS should do. PocketPC on the other hand is already
> based on a desktop OS and therefore has had an easy time supporting
> AWT. By choosing CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0 we are choosing to support
> Palms, PocketPCs and probably smartphones, but we lose control over
> the GUI.
>
> --Raj
>
>
> From: Raj Singh <info2003@rajsingh.org>
> Subject: geotools for PDAs
> To: geotools-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> I wanted to let the group know that a research effort here at MIT has
> chosen geotools-lite as the foundation of an open source mapping
> application
> PDAs. We will be coding to the Java 2 Mobile Edition's CLDC 1.1 and
> MIDP 2.0
> APIs, and we welcome input on an architecture or coding decisions.
> After our project is complete (sometime next summer), I'm hoping that
> the
> code could be managed by the geotools team and called something like
> geotools-mobile or geotools-pda. Comments welcome.
>
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