Porting MINA to a J2ME platform

[Gillo Malpart <gi...@anyware-tech.com>]

Hello all,

I am a software developer (considered as "expert" :-D) in mobile 
applications for industrial companies (what we call "Machine-to-Machine").
It has been 3 years now since I am working on CLDC platforms (J2ME) and 
I developed a suite of servers enabling the mobile phones/modems to host 
network servers (HTTP, FTP, SMS, etc...).

Our solutions have been proved efficient within the Machine-to-Machine 
community, still I'd like to move on the next stage and make our 
solutions more adaptable, and especially from the customization point of 
view (protocols and so on...).
The Professional Service Department of my company used MINA as the basis 
of our latest "heavy" server solutions (I write "heavy" and I think 
"servers-that-can-run-on-a-standard-PC :-) ) and seem more than 
satisfied with the solution.

That is why I am thinking of ***porting the MINA architecture and 
philosophy onto CLDC 1.1 platforms***.

But, before trying anything I'd like you guys to give me some hints 
about that :
- Did you already think of porting MINA to J2ME platforms ? And if you 
did, did you consider it as unfeasible and why ? or are you planning to 
do it ?
- What is the basic footprint of MINA (let's say with the smaller 
application you can think of...)
- Are you aware of any limitation for this project ? Of course I believe 
there will be some functionalities that will need some work in order to 
port them to J2ME, but do you already know which ones can't be ported ?


Best regards to all, and thanks for the good work

Gillo

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Re: Porting MINA to a J2ME platform

[Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com>]

Hello Gillo,

On 10/27/06, Gillo Malpart <gi...@anyware-tech.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am a software developer (considered as "expert" :-D) in mobile
> applications for industrial companies (what we call "Machine-to-Machine").
> It has been 3 years now since I am working on CLDC platforms (J2ME) and
> I developed a suite of servers enabling the mobile phones/modems to host
> network servers (HTTP, FTP, SMS, etc...).


Awesome.

Our solutions have been proved efficient within the Machine-to-Machine
> community, still I'd like to move on the next stage and make our
> solutions more adaptable, and especially from the customization point of
> view (protocols and so on...).
> The Professional Service Department of my company used MINA as the basis
> of our latest "heavy" server solutions (I write "heavy" and I think
> "servers-that-can-run-on-a-standard-PC :-) ) and seem more than
> satisfied with the solution.


Great to hear that.  Did the team contact our mailing list before?  We
always welcome feed back!

That is why I am thinking of ***porting the MINA architecture and
> philosophy onto CLDC 1.1 platforms***.


I see.

But, before trying anything I'd like you guys to give me some hints
> about that :
> - Did you already think of porting MINA to J2ME platforms ? And if you
> did, did you consider it as unfeasible and why ? or are you planning to
> do it ?


No, we didn't because we depends on Java 4 NIO heavily.  I am not even
really sure if we can port it.  Probably a MINA user with JME experience
would answer more nicely.

- What is the basic footprint of MINA (let's say with the smaller
> application you can think of...)


It creates quite a lot of objects to process an event because we believe
modern JVMs are very good at GC.  What we pool are two; ByteBuffer and
Thread.

- Are you aware of any limitation for this project ? Of course I believe
> there will be some functionalities that will need some work in order to
> port them to J2ME, but do you already know which ones can't be ported ?


I won't say it's impossible, but I think it will be a very difficult task,
especially as we move on to the newer version of JSE.

HTH,
Trustin
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