what are spotlets ?

[shailesh sonavadekar]

what are spotlets ? How are they compared with midlets ? are there any papers related to Spotlets ?

[Andrew Brasek]

I think I read that Spotlets are related to the KJava GUI classes. If that's the case, I wonder if when the profile for Palm PDA is complete, we'll (those of us programming for Palm OS) be still extending Spotlets.
[This message has been edited by Andrew Brasek (edited November 24, 2000).]

[Eric Giguere]

Yes, a spotlet refers to an application built with the unsupported com.sun.kjava classes. It's kind of analoguous to an applet. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be in the PDA Profile.
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Eric Giguere
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Java 2 Micro Edition : A Professional Developer's Guide
PalmTM Database Programming: The Complete Developer's Guide

[Mark Herschberg]

Eric wrote:
It's kind of analoguous to an applet. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be in the PDA Profile.
AFAIK it is.
Disclaimer: I'm on the JSR 75 (PDAP) expert group, but this is not an official answer.
--Mark
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[Eric Giguere]

Weird. I would've expected the expert group to rename it to something more meaningful.
Eric

[Mark Herschberg]

Arg, that was a poorly worded reply on my part. What I meant to say was that Spotlets are not supported (I was trying to word my statement to confirm yours).
I believe on MIDP spotlets have been replaced by MIDlets. Although Eric would know better than I. (Got any suggestions for what the PDAP things should be called. I personally like pdaplets, pronounced with the first p silent, so it sounds like "dap'-lets")
--Mark
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[shailesh sonavadekar]

Mark , can you elaborate upon what you have said ? I am curious about what is the actual meaning of spotlets ? how they will be supported by PDAP ?
Since , you are on JSR ( PDAP ) expert group, your valuable inputs are highly appriciated.
SHAILESH.
[This message has been edited by shailesh sonavadekar (edited December 05, 2000).]