Advice need

[Lord Ryj]

Hi.

Here's what I'm supposed to do:

1) Start an app on phone boot, 2) the autostarted app must launch a MIDlet, 3) the autostarted app must monitor the MIDlet, so, if the MIDlet is closed it must be relaunched.

This is the first phase of the project I'm working on. I have a few questions, and I hope that you may have the answers.

1) What's the best choice on boot: console app or a GUI app with no GUI? (Referring to my purpose)

2) If a GUI app doesn't have a GUI it's still called GUI app? (I think I can do this and my boss wouldn't notice it anyway XD)

3) I've read a little about something called 'client-server app'. Should I read more about it, as it could be better for what I'm trying to do?

This far, I have a GUI app autostarting on boot and it calls the MIDlet working. I also have make a .sis file from a console app, but it doesn't seems to work, nor boot, nor in the phone application manager.

Thanks for reading, I'll appreciate any comments.

[vdharankar]

Hi.

Here's what I'm supposed to do:

1) Start an app on phone boot, 2) the autostarted app must launch a MIDlet, 3) the autostarted app must monitor the MIDlet, so, if the MIDlet is closed it must be relaunched.

This is the first phase of the project I'm working on. I have a few questions, and I hope that you may have the answers.

1) What's the best choice on boot: console app or a GUI app with no GUI? (Referring to my purpose)

2) If a GUI app doesn't have a GUI it's still called GUI app? (I think I can do this and my boss wouldn't notice it anyway XD)

3) I've read a little about something called 'client-server app'. Should I read more about it, as it could be better for what I'm trying to do?

This far, I have a GUI app autostarting on boot and it calls the MIDlet working. I also have make a .sis file from a console app, but it doesn't seems to work, nor boot, nor in the phone application manager.

Thanks for reading, I'll appreciate any comments.

1) You can have a GUI application for this which can stay in background doing nothing but just checking for the midlet. Else you can go for a server application which has no GUI
2)NON GUI app is server application
3) Yes read some good articles available on wiki

[skumar_rao]

use a non-gui application as application observer that will be simple / lighter solution then server - client

[hotcheese]

The first thing to do is determine how the native program will monitor the java program, in any event there is no need for the native program to be either a server or an app, a plain simple .exe may do.