Wade Chandler wrote:
You'd be hard pressed getting less RAM usage out of
the .NET Framework when you compare apples to apples
(application vs application designed the same and
doing the same things). If you are used to Java use
it.
That is true if we were comparing Java to .Net, but on a PocketPC you
would be using the .Net Compact Framework (CF). Comparing the CF to
full-blown Java isn't a fair comparison because the CF is optimized for
small memory footprint devices like a PDA.
One thing is to see if a J2ME implementation exists for ARM, and I don't
know the answer to that. Comparing J2ME to .Net CF would be a much more
fair comparison.
Why would you even bother with .NET if you have Java
and a good modularized application. At least with
java applications you can reuse some of your classes
from your desktop..beans and such. Harder to do with
.NET and the Compact and Desktop projects provided by
Visual Studio.
Not true... much like the way you can reuse most classes written under
J2ME in a desktop Java app (not counting the things that are specific to
J2ME of course), you can reuse CF classes on the desktop, and
vice-versa. Remember that just like Java, there is nothing that forces
you to use Visual Studio, you can do it all from the command line. You
can therefore exercise full control over what goes into your code.
There certainly are things that won't be shareable, just like not
everything is shareable between J2SE and J2ME, but as you say, if the
application is modularized and architected well, most of your core
business logic should be identical.
But of course the crux of this whole thread is whether a suitable Java
implementation exists, and a Tomcat build for ARM, that would together
allow Tomcat to run on a PDA. Assuming not, only then does the .Net
suggestion (or more generically, native app) come into play.
Wade
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