Sabina and I have started working on some mobile development for our masters thesis. We are planning to build a xhtml-mp site where users can upload pictures and add them to a map. Also we will develop a j2me application that connects to the internal gps on a device and transmits the signal to our web-service. This signal will then be displayed on a map. Depending on the success rate and time we will implement more features, such as photo’s with embedded geo exif tags, view map in the application, where am i, where are my contacts etc., and eventually create a similar service/combo as mgmaps / gmap-track.

Initially, it has taken some time installing the various tools for the j2me development. Eclipse on Linux has given a lot of trouble and in particular the emulators - We are running on this combo package for our j2me development Eclipse/EclipseME/WTK/J2ME Polish, considering J4ME. For our xhtml-mp site we use notepad, php, apache and mysql.

We have looked at using NetBeans, but for some reason we ended up with the Eclipse combo. Not really sure why If anyone has any recommendations, feel free to comment.