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I was really want to try LWUIT since several months ago. It’s look promising and it’s developed by SUN so I think every Java ME developer should take a look on this technology.
I’m also still new in LWUIT so there won’t be a lot that I can share for now, but at least I will show you a basic demonstration of how to use Form, Label, Command, and 3D Form transition (sound cool huh :p)

REQUIREMENT

What you need:

1. LWUIT
2. Eclipse Pulsa
3. Emulator like Sun WTK
4. Know basic Java ME programming (continue reading…)

JSON is one of the most popular format used for communicating between (Java ME) J2ME client and App Server. Strangely it’s hard to find JSON implementation sample in J2ME. So I decide to write a sample.

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Why do we need a library for logger? doesn’t System.out.println help us enough?
When you try log4j you wouldn’t use System.out.println ever again… (Ok.. you will still used it.. occasionally :p)

What do you need? of course you need to download log4j first , get it at log4j download page
And open your favorite Java IDE.

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
/**
*
* @author jimmy
*/
public class SampleLog4j {

private final static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(SampleLog4j.class);

public static void main(String[] args) {
PropertyConfigurator.configure(”log4j.properties”);
LOGGER.trace(”Level trace”);
LOGGER.debug(”Level debug”);
LOGGER.info(”Level info”);
LOGGER.warn(”Level warn”);
LOGGER.fatal(”Level fatal”);
}

}

This program will read file log4j.properties in the folder for log4j configuration.
Example of log4j.properties:

### file appender
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.File=sample.log
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} — %p %C(%M):%L — %m%n
### console appender
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} — %p %C(%M):%L — %m%nlog4j.rootLogger=debug, console
# uncomment the line below if you want log output to file
# log4j.rootLogger=debug, file

And it’ll produce output:

2007-11-15 18:19:09,812 — DEBUG testing.SampleLog4j(main):26 — Level debug
2007-11-15 18:19:09,828 — INFO testing.SampleLog4j(main):27 — Level info
2007-11-15 18:19:09,828 — WARN testing.SampleLog4j(main):28 — Level warn
2007-11-15 18:19:09,828 — FATAL testing.SampleLog4j(main):29 — Level fatal

Why the log “Level trace” doesn’t logged, because we set the log level only to debug.
You should learn the configuration. There are 2 appender, 1 will log to console and other will log to a file.

Now why shouldn’t I used standard System.out.println?

• You can’t set the level of log with println only
• You will end up delete/comment the log using println
• It won’t be that easy to create log to file with different filename daily (daily-rolling)
• I wonder how your println can print class name, line number easily
• … you can add more after you try it