Display mobile sites in my j2me application

[girish_m.v]

Hi all,

I am new to J2me. I have a requirement, to display mobile site pages within my application.

For this I was told there was Browser Control method, which makes the browser with the web page to be rendered within application form.

I have searched Google and found these posts

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5235530

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ad.php?t=72540

which states Browser control is not possible and I need to use suitable parser and renderer i.e., to create my own browser. But these posts are found to be posted in the year 2007 and 2008.

I found this to be possible in BlackBerry
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/.../337163#M61309

So I am curious to know, is this possible currently in j2me?

If not, Can you guide me to the alternative solution?

Thanks in advance
Girish

[grahamhughes]

Welcome to Forum Nokia!!

There is no "browser control" in MIDP (the standard for mobile Java). You have three options.

1. Use a platform-specific API. Some devices will support a "browser control" through a proprietary API. For example, you have seen that BlackBerry devices have such an API. If you have a newer Nokia Series 60, it might support the eSWT API, which also has a browser component (org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser). However, as soon as you use such an API, your application will work only on a very limited number of devices.

2. Write your own HTML rendering engine. This is a big job, but if you're lucky, someone else has already done this. For example, j2mehtml.

3. Using MIDlet.platformRequest(), you can launch the device's web-browser. This is very portable (works on almost all MIDP-2 devices), but is quite limited in terms of functionality.

Graham.

[girish_m.v]

Hi Graham,

Thank you for your reply. I will work with the suggestions and get back to you when there is any doubt.

Thanks again,
Girish

[petrib]

If you're willing to not use Java and you target Nokia's Symbian based phones, then there's a browser control you can use in C++ apps.

[girish_m.v]

Hi Petrib,

Thanks for the info.
Girish