Urgent.........need suggestions on good book on J2ME

[Kenny]

We are starting a new study group at HJUG coming Monday and looking for a good book.
Will appreciate suggestions

[Luther Adon]

Hello,
I bought the first j2me book out in my area:
Mobile Information Device Profile for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME): Professional Developer's Guide
by C. Enrique Ortiz, Eric Giguere
And would not recommend it. So you can rule that one out anyhow.

[chanakya khatri]

1. Core j2Me ..www.corej2me.com
2. j2me in nutshell.
3. j2me in 21 days ..sams publishing
by the way there is lot of material and source code available on web(most of these books teaches the same thing..havent bought any recent j2me beginer book so cant say anything about the new releases.)

[Bill Ngu]

I bought 2 J2ME books from sams publishing...
1. Wireless Java Programming with J2ME
by Yu Feng, Jun Zhu
2. Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Application Development by Michael Kroll, Stefan Haustein
Both are good.

[Matthew Phillips]

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[Michael Yuan]

Originally posted by Luther Adon:
Hello,
I bought the first j2me book out in my area:
Mobile Information Device Profile for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME): Professional Developer's Guide
by C. Enrique Ortiz, Eric Giguere
And would not recommend it. So you can rule that one out anyhow.

Can you tell us why? That book provides some very useful tips, especially for enterprise developers.
You can check out this book review I wrote a while ago on 6 J2ME books.
A lot of new things have happened especially after MIDP 2.0 spec comes out. Most of those books will have a MIDP 2.0 revision.
For MIDP 2.0 books, I know Jonathan Knudsen's Wireless Java (from APress) should come in Q1-Q2 2003. That is a decent book.