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[hamid14]

I have an idea for a program similar to MSN, except its for mobile phones with wifi, psp and nintendo ds. I know that PSP and NDS require the conversion from java to their software format, which is gonna be hard. Anyways, what kinds of things would I need to learn to make something like a text chat program in netbeans? Will I need a server computer to handle large amounts of users sending data simantaneously? I almost forgot to mention, I have a friend who will also be creating this software, so it will be more efficient hopefully. Thanks for the help in advance!

[Dan]

You do know that there are MSN clients for most phones that use wifi just fine?

Secondly it is not going to be trival to port any program you make in java to NDS. Ninentdo does not provide any devlopment tools or SDKs for free and you will need to chip your NDS (or use a flash card) to get the code to load at all.

Addtionaly the Java on most phones is not the same as the java you run on the PC. Android phones have there own SDK and JVM (Dalvik), symbian phones use JavaME or JavaFX, Windows mobile phones don't have first party support by Microsoft or Sun and thrid party JVMs must be used and the iPhone does not allow users to run there own Java code or apps made in Java.

To make such a chat program for the PC in java is not as complicated. However you will need a good understanding of network programing in java and may require a 24/7 server depending on how your program works.


I recomend reading the following:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/overview/networking.html

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets/index.html

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/datagrams/index.html

[ProgrammingFun]

Dan @ Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:38 pm wrote:

iPhone does not allow users to run there own Java code or apps made in Java.

He could release it for the jailbroken market since its now legal (at least in the US)...
And as homebrew for the consoles (not so legal tho)....

[Dan]

ProgrammingFun @ 30th September 2010, 5:46 am wrote:

He could release it for the jailbroken market since its now legal (at least in the US)...
And as homebrew for the consoles (not so legal tho)....

Is there a homebrewed JVM for the iPhone? In either case it might be easier to recode the hole thing in apple's objective C then make it for a thrid party JVM.