MobiForms Wireless Development Tool Now Certified With IBM J9 Java Environment

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Rapid application development tool for building Java based mobile applications for Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, EPOC, Symbian and Palm based mobile computers and PDA.

The latest release of the revolutionary mobile development tool MobiForms is now certified with the IBM J9 Java environment - alternatively known as the WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment. J9 gives Java support for MobiForms on Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Palm. MobiForms continues to support other Java environments such as Jbed, Jeode and Mysaifu on Windows Mobile or PersonalJava on Symbian...

MobiForms is a rapid application development tool for building Java based mobile applications for Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, EPOC, Symbian and Palm based mobile computers and PDAs. MobiForms revolutionises the creation of mobile applications by reducing development time from days to minutes. With MobiForms you do not need to know a single line of Java, but you can develop professional applications for asset collection, field service, inspection, market research, site surveys, stock control or workshop repair, quickly and seamlessly using the intuitive MobiForms drag and drop interface and tie the data back easily to corporate systems.

This latest release complements the existing features in MobiForms such as signature capture, image items, integrated MobiScript language for bar coding, connectivity to Oracle, Sybase and IBM DB2 databases, or simple ASCII file access. MobiForms also contains networking functionality allowing client-server mobile applications to be built using serial, USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or mobile phone connections.

What can Mobiforms do for you?

  MobiForms costs no more than what you would pay for a couple of hours of a Java contractor. All the difficult database result set management and cursor control are managed by the MobiForms runtime interpreter.

 Much of the database world is moving towards Java as the preferred application development tool, but many developers are used to using highly productive tools like Oracle Developer or PowerBuilder and do not want to use Java because it is seen as a low level language with hundreds of difficult commands and syntax. With Java it can take days or even weeks to create usable applications. MobiForms solves this problem by doing the Java programming for you. You direct MobiForms with an intuitive graphical drag and drop interface using rapid application development principles. Applications can be developed in minutes instead of days. MobiForms creates and uses the simple Forms Mark-up Language (FML) files instead of complex JAR files.
MobiForms costs no more than what you would pay for a couple of hours of a Java contractor. All the difficult database result set management and cursor control are managed by the MobiForms runtime interpreter.

What do you get for your money?

MobiForms offers you unbelievable value for money. For the price of less than two hours of a Java contractor, MobiForms gives you the power of a whole army of unrelenting Java programmers. The standard MobiForms licence costs just ?99 UK Pounds (139 Euros or 178 US Dollars) and includes:

• New Version 3.02 with even more features.
• MobiForms rapid application development environment for any version of Windows with improved look and feel.
• MobiForms runtime for testing on Windows or running on any mobile device with Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, EPOC, Symbian or Palm.
• Now certified with IBM J9 Java environment (also known as the WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment) for Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Palm.
• New drawing object type enabling signature capture or sketching capability.
• New image object type compatible with all JPG and GIF file types.
• Simple MobiScript language with navigation, if/end if evaluation, loops, date and time assignments, mathematical expressions, file access, execution of operating system commands, TCP/IP client server data and file transfer commands.
• Support for Oracle Server and Personal Oracle. Support for Oracle Lite running on Windows, Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, EPOC, Symbian or Palm.
• Support for Sybase SQL Anywhere running on Windows, Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE or Windows Mobile. Support for the Sybase jConnect and iAnywhere JDBC drivers.
• One developer licence.
• Free runtime licence on ANY number of mobile devices.
• Complete installation and development manual.
• Free email support 24 hours a day for one year, with guaranteed responses within one working day.
• Free access to the latest versions and updates for one year.
• Preferential treatment for enhancement requests.
• Access to bespoke mobile application development services.

MobiForms can be downloaded from the MobiForms web site at www.mobiforms.com

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Java Calendar and Date: good to know facts and code examples

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Practical info about Java Calendar and Date

If you want to operate with different dates in your Java program you   will use Java Calendar class.

I will try to give you some overview of not widely known facts about Java Calendar and Date classes, working code examples, which you can try right away.

The basic information about Calendar class is provided by Java API. The Calendar class is about days, months and years. One could ask: is not Date class about the same? Not exactly...

What is difference between Java Date and Calendar classes?

The difference between Date and Calendar is that Date class operates with specific instant in time and Calendar operates with difference between two dates. The Calendar class gives you possibility for converting between a specific instant in time and a set of calendar fields such as HOUR, YEAR, MONTH, DAY_OF_MONTH. You can also manipulate with the calendar fields, for example getting the date of your grandmother birthday .

I would like to point some things about Calendar and Date which you should know and which are not obvious...

Leap seconds.

Years, months, dates and hours are in "normal" range like:

• A year  y - 1900.
• A month from 0 to 11
• A date (day of month) from 1 to 31 in the usual manner.
• An hour 0 to 23.
• A minute from 0 to 59 in the usual manner.

But, attention!! A second is represented by an integer from 0 to 61. Looks strange - 61 second, but do not forget about leap  second. About once every year or two there is an extra second, called a "leap second." The leap second is always added as the last second of the day, and always on December 31 or June 30. For example, the last minute of the year 1995 was 61 seconds long, thanks to an added leap second.

Lenient fields.

Another funny feature is lenient and non-lenient fields in calendar. What is that? Example:

32 January 2006. Actually if you set your calendar lenient it will be 1 February 2006 and no problem for your program . If it is non-lenient  ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception will be thrown.

Another question is 00:00 end or beginning of day? Is 00:00 A.M. or P.M.? Are midnight and noon A.M. or P.M?

Answer: 23:59 is the last minute of the day and 00:00 is the first minute of the next day. Midnight belongs to "am", and noon belongs to "pm", so on the same day, 12:00 am (midnight) < 12:01 am, and 12:00 pm (noon) < 12:01 pm.

And probably last question: what is epoch? and why this Epoch since January 1, 1970 00:00:00.000 GMT.

Actually it is Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time: it is the number of seconds after 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970.

Wait, one question more!

"If we use the time which is counted since Epoch, how can I know which years had leap seconds and which not?"

Answer: To make life easier leap seconds are not counted. Java Date class takes actual time from OS and most of modern computers can not use leap seconds, their's internal clocks are not so precised. That's why periodical time synchronization is required.

All Java code examples with Date class. (Calendar class examples follow below...)

Example Name

Date / Time Example

Calendar Example

Month View

Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory

Formatting Output with PrintWriter (Logger1.java)

Connection Options (i.e. SYSDBA)

Query Example

WriteFileToTable.java

Beep / Date Example

Java Statement Runner

Trivial class to show use of Date & Calendar objects

Show dates before 1970, in JDK1.0/1.1 when Date was broken

Show some date uses

Create SimpleDateFormats from a string read from a file

DateDiff -- compute the difference between two dates

Compare Dates

An Applet to display the current time

The Date we are about to format

Read a file of reminders, sleep until each is due, beep.

Read a file of reminders, run each when due using java.util.Timer

Beep every 5 minutes.

Request and/or provide time service, per RFC 868. RFC 868

Test interrupt and async close semantics of InterruptibleChannel objects.

Entity Resolver, with Chaining

Event Bean

TransactionBean

AudioInfo

Transparent Background

Time Server

KVMCalendar

Item MIDlet example

Chat Applet

Html Template class implements a simple HTML template.

Send Email

Time Client

Cookie

Site Redirector

Request Processor

UDP Time Client

Time Server

Last 24 (retrieves file if it's modified since ...)

Daytime Server

Dayclient and Dayserver - implement the Unix 'daytime' protocol.

Try Date Format - enter a time value and a SimpleDateFormat specification.

Calendar Hack

Triangle Square Windows Corner Icon

Single Wave form Panel

Weather Panel

Waveform Display Simulator

BGTest1

MIDlet exampleS to invoke a servlet.

Four execution Midlets

All Java code Examples with Calendar class

Example Name

Calendar Example

Month View

Trivial class to show use of Date & Calendar objects

Show dates before 1970, in JDK1.0/1.1 when Date was broken

Print a month page. Only works for the Western calendar.

The Date we are about to format

Show some calendar calculations.

An Applet to display a "Cal" calendar component

Bean to display a month calendar in a JPanel

Show use of Calendar objects

Compute the day of the year that Easter falls on.

Show use of Calendar get() method with various parameters.

Time Server

KVMCalendar

Item MIDlet example

Time Client

Calendar Hack

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