Programming cellular phones using Python/Jython ?

[Alan Kennedy]

[Thomas Weholt]
>>> Is it at all possible to use python to make apps on cellular/mobile
>>> phones, using something like Jython etc. ?

[Mark Hahn]
>> I just got a samsung sph-i700 phone with pocket pc 2002 and it runs python
>> 2.2+ apps with win32 gui just fine.  I got the binaries for it from:
>> http://www.murkworks.com/Research/Python/PocketPCPython/Overview

[Paul Boddie]
> I suppose the question was really more concerned with making use of
> the Java support that a lot of new mobile 'phones seem to have these
> days. I can't imagine that a significant number of 'phones out in the
> European market (and certainly in the Norwegian market) are running
> some kind of Windows derivative, but many manufacturers are promoting
> their Java application (eg. games) support.

I haven't done any work with jython on mobile phones, but here are
some considerations which I think apply.

1. Java support on mobile phones is usually J2ME - Java2 Micro
Edition.
2. J2ME is a cut down version of Java which does not support all of
the java facilities that jython requires, notably some of the
reflection APIs.

Here are some urls that discuss this topic.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=840592e1.0308170739.1de04d6d%40posting.google.com
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=9169196&list=7018
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=6466738&list=7017
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=GvKvDK.FHr%40bath.ac.uk
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Jython-users/1638105

HTH,

P.S. Paul, thanks for drawing attention to xml.dom.javadom in another
thread: I never knew it was there!

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